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Effect of Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering on Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Patients With Hypertension
Author(s) -
Elsayed Z. Soliman,
Walter T. Ambrosius,
William C. Cushman,
Zhu-Ming Zhang,
Jeffrey T. Bates,
Javier A. Neyra,
Thaddeus Y. Carson,
Leonardo Tamariz,
Lama Ghazi,
Monique E. Cho,
Brian P. Shapiro,
Jiang He,
Lawrence J. Fine,
Cora E. Lewis
Publication year - 2017
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/circulationaha.117.028441
Subject(s) - medicine , left ventricular hypertrophy , blood pressure , cardiology , muscle hypertrophy
It is currently unknown whether intensive blood pressure (BP) lowering beyond that recommended would lead to more lowering of the risk of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in patients with hypertension and whether reducing the risk of LVH explains the reported cardiovascular disease (CVD) benefits of intensive BP lowering in this population.

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