[Role of blood pressure in rest and exercise conditions and importance of clinical factors in left ventricular hypertrophy in arterial hypertension].
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the role of casual and exercise blood pressure as well as the importance of clinical factors on the presence and degree of left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertension.


METHODS
Fifteen normotensives (control group) and 30 hypertensives, 14 of them with and 16 without left ventricular hypertrophy (groups with LVH and without LVH, respectively) were studied. LVH diagnosis was established when mass index was higher than 2 standard-deviations of the mean values calculated for each sex in control group. Resting, casual determined, and bicycle exercise systolic and diastolic blood pressures along with age, body surface area, sex and race distribution were compared between groups. In addiction, their relation with mass index as independent variables were also tested.


RESULTS
Hypertensives in group with LVH had higher diastolic septal, posterior wall, and relative wall thicknesses. No significant statistical difference was observed neither in sex and race distribution, nor in age and body surface area between groups. Otherwise, there were significant differences in both resting and exercise blood pressure. In the entire population studied, left ventricular mass index significantly correlated with age (r=0,33, p=0,03) as well as with both casual (systolic - r=0,72, p=0,0001; diastolic - r=0,69, p=0,0001) and exercise (systolic - r=0,62, p=0,0001; diastolic - r=0,66, p=0,0001) blood pressures. However, linear regression analysis demonstrated that only resting systolic (p=0,0001) and exercise diastolic (p=0,0303) blood pressures were significant and independent determinants of mass index.


CONCLUSIONS
Resting and exercising blood pressures are the main determinants of left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertension.
Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clínicas-FMUSP.
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Frimm
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de Moraes
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Medeiros
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Silva
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Bellotti
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Krieger
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Pileggi
D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005080:Exercise Test; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male
Papel da pressão arterial casual e do exercício e a influência de fatores clínicos sobre a hipertrofia ventricular esquerda na hipertensão arterial.