Intima-Media Thickness of the Carotid Artery in Hypertensive Subjects and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Patients
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- other
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Hypertension
- Vol. 29 (1), 361-365
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.hyp.29.1.361
Abstract
While hypertension is known to cause left ventricular and vascular hypertrophy, the relationship between alterations of vascular and cardiac structures in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy has not been fully clarified. We measured intima-media thickness of carotid arteries by ultrasonography in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (n=16), normotensive subjects (n=358), and hypertensive subjects (n=386) in a cohort of 7940 male employees of a bus company. Our object was to determine whether vascular alteration occurs in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy similarly as in hypertension. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (wall thickness ≥ 15 mm; asymmetrical hypertrophy without hypertension) was screened with family history and electrocardiography followed by echocardiography. The intima-media thickness in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (mean, 0.61 mm) did not differ from that of normotensive subjects (0.60 mm) but was significantly less than that of hypertensive subjects with left ventricular hypertrophy (wall thickness ≥ 14 mm; n=22; 0.73 mm). In a scatterplot of intima-media thickness versus interventricular septal thickness, these two parameters were significantly correlated in normotensives and hypertensives. The patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy distributed outside the 95% confidence range of the normotensive and hypertensive subjects. In summary, the increase in intima-media thickness of the carotid artery paralleled left ventricular hypertrophy in normotensive and hypertensive subjects. Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy had a normal intima-media thickness regardless of the hypertrophied left ventricle. Thus, information on intima-media thickness may be useful in differentiating hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.Keywords
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