Prevalence of echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy in persons with systemic hypertension, coronary artery disease, and peripheral arterial disease and in persons with systemic hypertension, coronary artery disease, and no peripheral arterial disease.
Echocardiographic left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy was present in 120 of 160 patients (75%) (mean age 72 +/- 8 years) with systemic hypertension, coronary artery disease, and peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and in 43 of 94 age- and gender-matched patients (46%) with systemic hypertension, coronary artery disease, and no PAD (p<0.001). Echocardiographic LV hypertrophy was present in 63 of 68 patients with PAD (93%) with ankle-brachial indexes (ABIs) of <0.60 and in 57 of 92 patients (62%) with ABIs of 0.60 to 0.89 (p<0.001).
Sukhija
Rishi
R
Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA.
Aronow
Wilbert S
WS
Kakar
Priyanka
P
Levy
James A
JA
Lehrman
Stuart G
SG
Babu
Sateesh
S
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications*; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016491:Peripheral Vascular Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D015995:Prevalence