Hypertension remains a major contributor to the global burden of disease. The
measurement of blood pressure continues to have pitfalls related to both physiological …

Hypertension remains a major contributor to the global burden of disease. The
measurement of blood pressure continues to have pitfalls related to both physiological …

Little information is available about the burden of hypertension on echo-lab activity in current
practice. The aim of the present nation-wide survey in outpatient echo-labs was to …

Echocardiography has become an important technique to assess left ventricular wall mass
and its regression after therapeutic intervention in left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). This is …

The recent guidelines of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and of the European
Society of Cardiology (ESC) include echocardiography among the recommended …

Hypertension (HTN) is present in nearly 50 million individuals, or approximately 29% of the
adult US population. The prevalence of HTN is higher in men, increases with age, and …

The variety of clinical information provided by the echocardiogram (ie assessment of left
ventricular (LV) structure and geometry, systolic/diastolic function, left atrial and aortic size) …

It has been well established that arterial hypertension is considered as a predominant risk
factor for the development of cardiovascular diseases. Despite the link between arterial …

Hypertension is a condition characterized by pressure and/or volume overloads and
echocardiography is helpful and feasible to understand hemodynamic mechanisms …

The increased use of echocardiography and related techniques for both research and
clinical purposes is related with the identification of a variety of subclinical cardiac changes …