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Precursors of Hypertensive Heart Phenotype Develop in Healthy Adults: A High-Resolution 3D MRI Study.
JACC. Cardiovascular imaging - 1 Nov 2015
de Marvao Antonio, Dawes Timothy J W, Shi Wenzhe, Durighel Giuliana, Rueckert Daniel, Cook Stuart A, O'Regan Declan P
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OBJECTIVES: This study used high-resolution 3-dimensional cardiac magnetic resonance to define the anatomical and functional left ventricular (LV) properties associated with increasing systolic blood pressure (SBP) in a drug-naïve cohort. BACKGROUND: LV hypertrophy and remodeling occur in response to hemodynamic stress but little is known about how these phenotypic changes are initiated in the general population....
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