Myocardial Oxygen Consumption Is Unchanged but Efficiency Is Reduced in Patients With Essential Hypertension and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy | Zendy

Hanna Laine | Zendy; Chietsugu Katoh | Zendy; Matti Luotolahti | Zendy; Hannele YkiJärvinen | Zendy; Ilkka Kantola | Zendy; Antti Jula | Zendy; Teemu Takala | Zendy; Ulla Ruotsalainen | Zendy; Hidehiro Iida | Zendy; Merja HaaparantaSolin | Zendy; Pirjo Nuutila | Zendy; Juhani Knuuti | Zendy

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Myocardial Oxygen Consumption Is Unchanged but Efficiency Is Reduced in Patients With Essential Hypertension and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

Author(s) -

Hanna Laine,

Chietsugu Katoh,

Matti Luotolahti,

Hannele YkiJärvinen,

Ilkka Kantola,

Antti Jula,

Teemu Takala,

Ulla Ruotsalainen,

Hidehiro Iida,

Merja HaaparantaSolin,

Pirjo Nuutila,

Juhani Knuuti

Publication year - 1999

Publication title -

circulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795

H-Index - 607

eISSN - 1524-4539

pISSN - 0009-7322

DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.100.24.2425

Subject(s) - left ventricular hypertrophy , medicine , cardiology , blood pressure , muscle hypertrophy , essential hypertension

Patients with hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) are prone to develop heart failure. We tested the hypothesis that compensatory LVH is associated with normalization of myocardial oxygen consumption and that this occurs at the expense of a decrease in the ratio between cardiac work and oxygen consumption (efficiency).

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