Small artery structure and function in hypertension
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Small artery structure and function in hypertension
It has been known for some considerable time that sustained hypertension changes the circulatory architecture both in the heart and blood vessels. The histopathological alterations are of considerable interest because once they have developed they appear to carry an adverse prognostic risk. In the heart it is apparent that there is hypertrophy. This extends also to the large- and medium-sized b...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1582-1838,1582-4934
DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2010.01080.x