Obesity and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy: The Hypertension Connection

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Woodiwiss, Angela J ^a,b   Norton, Gavin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Concentric remodeling; Eccentric remodeling; Hypertension; Left ventricular geometry; Left ventricular mass index; Obesity

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; OBESITY; PREDICTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; COMPLICATION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; OBESITY; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84925357487     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: 15343111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-015-0539-z     Document Type: Review

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