Hypertension
Research on hypertension described by B. Lopez and colleagues
Published in Blood Weekly, January 10th, 2008
"Inappropriate left ventricular mass is present when the value of left ventricular mass exceeds individual needs to compensate hemodynamic load imposed by increased blood pressure. The goal of this study was to investigate whether plasma concentration of cardiotrophin-1, a cytokine that induces exaggerated hypertrophy in cardiomyocytes with hypertensive phenotype, is related to inappropriate left ventricular mass in patients with essential hypertension," researchers in Pamplona, Spain report.
"The study was performed in 118 patients with never-treated hypertension and without prevalent cardiac disease. The left ventricular mass prediction from stroke work (systolic...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2008-01-10)
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