Is Echocardiography Essential in the Management of Newly Diagnosed Hypertension?

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1156-1157

  Bella, Jonathan N ^a,b   Devereux, Richard B ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; TARGET ORGAN;

EID: 33750304233     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjhyper.2006.06.010     Document Type: Note

References (6)

1. Casale P.N., Devereux R.B., Milner M., Zullo G., Harshfield G.A., Pickering T.G., and Laragh J. Value of echocardiographic assessment of LV mass in predicting cardiovascular morbid events in hypertensive men. Ann Intern Med 105 (1986) 173-178
2. Devereux R.B., Wachtell K., Gerdts E., Boman K., Nieminen M.S., Papademetriou V., Rokkedal J., Harris K., Aurup P., and Dahlöf B. Prognostic significance of left ventricular mass change during treatment of hypertension. JAMA 292 (2004) 2350-2356
3. Joint National Committee. The seventh report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. JAMA 289 (2003) 2560-2572
4. Martina B., Nordmann A., Dieterle T., Sigle J.P., Bengel G., Kiefer G., and Battegay E. Impact of baseline echocardiography on treatment outcome in primary care patients with newly detected arterial hypertension: A randomized trial. Am J Hypertens 19 (2006) 1150-1155
5. Kligbeil A.U., Schmeider M., Martus P., Messerli F.H., and Schmeider R.E. A meta-analysis of the effects of treatment on left ventricular mass in essential hypertension. Am J Med 115 (2003) 41-46
6. Olsen M.H., Wachtell K., Bella J.N., Palmieri V., Gerdts E., Smith G., Nieminen M.S., Dahlof, Ibsen H., and Devereux R.B. Albuminuria predicts cardiovascular events independently of left ventricular mass in hypertension: a LIFE substudy. J Hum Hypertens 18 (2004) 453-459