Should we perform an echocardiogram in hypertensive patients classified as having low and medium risk?

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-46

  Suárez, Carmen ^a,b   Villar, José ^a   Martel, Nieves ^a   Extremera, Blas Gil ^a   Suliman, Najaty ^a   Campo, Carlos ^a   Castellanos, Victoriano ^a   Liébana, Antonio ^a   Rodilla, Enrique ^a   Nieto, Javier ^a   Velasco, Olga ^a   Ruilope, Luis M ^a  

^a Hospital Hypertension Units of Spain   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Left ventricular hypertrophy; Low and medium risk hypertensive

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREVALENCE; SPAIN;

EID: 28444436284     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2004.12.076     Document Type: Article

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