[The morphometric indices of the myocardium in young hypertension patients with excessive body mass].
Morphometric indices were measured for the myocardium with the aid of echocardiography in 25 young hypertensives, their age ranging between 15 to 30 years. Of these, 4 had normal body mass, 21-above normal. A significant augmentation in the thickness of the left ventricular posterior wall was measurable as was that of the diameter of the left auricular cavity and left ventricular end-diastolic dimension in overweight patients, which fact suggests early formation of hypertrophy of the left ventricle together with dilatation of its cavity in these patients.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D009765:Obesity / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*