This study aimed to explore the relative contribution of aortic stiffness and volume in treatment-induced change of left ventricular mass in dialysis. Hypertension in Hemodialysis Patients Treated with Atenolol or Lisinopril trial compared the effect of lisinopril versus atenolol in reducing left ventricular mass index; 179 patients with echo measurements of aortic pulse wave velocity and left ...

OBJECTIVES We sought to determine whether growth influences the relation between left ventricular mass and body size and whether use of different body size indexes affects the ability of ventricular mass to predict complications of hypertension. BACKGROUND Allometric (or growth) signals between left ventricular mass and height have recently been reported to improve previous approaches for nor...

AN INCREASE IN THE MASS OF LEFT VENTRICULAR muscle is intimately associated with most chronic diseases of the heart. Classically, left ventricular hypertrophy, which represents an extreme increase in left ventricular mass, has been thought to represent a reaction to pressure or volume overload. In the short run, increases in left ventricular mass may be beneficial by allowing the heart to compe...

OBJECTIVE Obesity and hypertension are regarded as the most important determinants of left ventricular mass in the community. Little is known about sex-specific influences of obesity, hypertension, and other risk factors on left ventricular mass in pre-diabetic or diabetic subjects. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We examined how body composition, blood pressure, and other factors are related to ...

performance of heart has substantial role in breaking records of sports. achieving to optimal performance of endurance training builds upon the consistency in several parts of body specially heart. type, intensity, term training programs is determining components of providing structural consistency and performance of heart especially in left ventricular. aim of this research was comparing struc...

takotsubo cardiomypathy is a very rare cardiovascular syndrome leading to myocardial infarction and left ventricular dysfunction in the absence of a detectable coronary artery lesion. it is accepted as reversible left ventricular asynergy occuring typically after an intrinsic adrenergic hyperstimulation. in this report we present takotsubo cardiomyopathy in a 75-year-old patient with multiple a...

background: n-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (nt-probnp) is a sensitive biomarker for the detection of asymptomatic left ventricular (lv) dysfunction. since β-thalassemia major patients suffer from early diastolic dysfunction due to iron deposition of chronic blood transfusion, we tried to evaluate the correlation between the serum nt-probnp level and the severity of lv diastolic dysfun...