title: [Interrelations between blood pressure, age, body mass and echocardiographically determined left ventricular muscle mass of the heart in hypertensive and normotensive patients].
abstract: 179 male hypertensives with predominantly mild hypertension were in comparison to 55 male normotensives investigated by means of a 2-D-regulated M-mode echocardiogram in order to prove the interrelations between blood pressure, age, body mass and left-ventricular muscle mass of the heart. The thicknesses of the wall of the left ventricle, the left-ventricular muscle mass and the left-ventricular muscle mass index were significantly larger in the hypertensives. Univariate calculations of correlation did not show any significant relations of the left-ventricular muscle mass to the height of the blood pressure but significantly positive relations with a small measure of distinctness to the body mass in the hypertensives and normotensives and to the age in the hypertensives. Conclusions for the valuation of echocardiographic findings in left-ventricular hypertrophy were derived.
authors.affiliation: Arztlicher Dienst, Bezirkspolizeibehörde Chemnitz.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Naumann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002306:Cardiac Volume / Q000502:physiology*; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D004452:Echocardiography; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology*
vernacular_title: Die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Blutdruck, Lebensalter, Körpermasse und echokardiographisch bestimmter linksventrikulärer Muskelmasse des Herzens bei Hypertonikern und Normotonikern.