Salt Sensitivity and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
- 1 January 1997
- book chapter
- Published by Springer Nature
- Vol. 432, 91-101
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5385-4_10
Abstract
Coronary artery disease (CAD), congestive heart failure (CHF) and sudden death remain the most common and major complications of essential hypertension (EH)1. The Framingham study2,3 demonstrated that in 75% of all patients in whom heart failure developed, EH was the underlying disease. Moreover, EH accelerates coronary arteriosclerosis leading to myocardial ischemia in patients with genetic predisposition4, a phenomenon that exacerbates in the presence of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH).This publication has 44 references indexed in Scilit:
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