Importance of obesity, race and age to the cardiac structural and functional effects of hypertension.

摘要

Arterial hypertension represents a major cardiovascular epidemic in the developed and developing world. Projections out to 2 025 suggest that up to 50% of the adult populations of Western countries will meet standard guidelines definitions of hypertension and thus require therapeutic intervention both nonpharmacological or pharmacological. Hypertension in also a component of many other major comorbidities contributing to cardiovascular disease burden