BACKGROUND With hypertension, the cardiovascular system changes to adapt to the varying neuro-humoral and hemodynamic changes and this may lead to the development of different left ventricular geometric patterns, each carrying a different risk profile for major adverse cardiovascular events. METHODS Using a consecutive sampling technique, a cross-sectional, prospective, hospital based study w...

AIMS This investigation was set up to study the prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy in a hypertensive population with reference to a normotensive control group. From the general population 3498 men and women aged 35, 45, 55 and 65 years old were invited to a health examination. Participants with blood pressure above 160 mmHg systolic or 95 mmHg diastolic or those taking antihypertensive ...

FOLLOWING Brock's' recognition that hypertrophied muscle in the left ventricular outflow tract could obstruct left ventricular outflow, much interest has centered on the nature of this hypertrophy. Initial reports suggested that concentric hypertrophy of the left ventricle was the underlying cause of the obstruction of the outflow tract. -3 Following Teare's4 description of asymmetrical hypertr...

AIMS To evaluate the prevalence and the independent prognosis of electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy by voltage only, ST depression and negative T wave, isolated negative T wave and left ventricular hypertrophy plus ST depression and negative T wave for cardiac morbidity and mortality, without known ischaemic heart disease at baseline. METHODS AND RESULTS Follow-up data from the...

OBJECTIVE To study QT dispersion in left ventricular hypertrophy and chronic heart failure and to determine the relation to ventricular arrhythmias. SETTING Investigational laboratory of a tertiary referral centre. STUDY DESIGN Patients with left ventricular hypertrophy and normal systolic function (n = 14) and patients with chronic heart failure (n = 18) were matched with controls (n = 17)...