PURPOSE Determination of the underlying etiology of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a common, challenging, and critical clinical problem. The authors aimed to test whether pathological LVH, such as occurs in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), hypertensive heart disease, or aortic stenosis, and physiological LVH in athletes, can be distinguished by means of left ventricular volume and geom...

We examined, in conscious dogs, the effects of acute hemorrhage on measurements of mean arterial and left ventricular (LV) pressures, LV diameters, LV dP/dt, LV dP/dt/P40, LV dP/dt/ circ, i.e., LV dP/dt divided by LV circumference, and LV dD/dt, i.e., velocity of myocardial fiber shortening. Hemorrhage (30 ml/kg) over 1 hour reduced mean arterial pressure (31 ± 4.3%), LV end-diastolic (21 ± 3.2...

Purpose: To compare LA indices and cardiac among hypertensive with left ventricular diastolic dysfunction
 Methodology: It is an echocardiographic based descriptive cross-sectional study. A total of 200 patients were recruited from the cardiology clinics using systematic sampling method.
 Results: The mean age study population was 58.7 ±13.96 (58.42±13.29 for Hypertensives) years whil...

BACKGROUND Mean platelet volume (MPV) and platelet distribution width (PDW) are indices that reflect platelet activity. We investigated the association between these platelet indices and left ventricular hypertrophy and cardiac function. METHODS We analyzed the data of 1241 patients who were admitted to the Cardiology Department. RESULTS Both MPV and PDW were selected as independent factors...

1. Atenolol (100 mg/day) was given to 12 hypertensive patients for 8 weeks, and its effects on mean arterial pressure, cardiac index and ejection phase indices of myocardial performance were examined by echocardiography. 2. Echocardiographic studies were made before treatment after 4 weeks on placebo and repeated after 4 and 8 weeks of atenolol therapy. Mean arterial pressure fell by 14 and 21%...

The present study aimed to investigate the applicability of Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) as an innovative and science-based index in public health researches, in occupational heat stress assessment. All indoor and outdoor workers (200 people) of Brick industries of Shahroud, Iran participated in the research. First, the environmental variables such as air temperature, wet-bulb tempera...

The strong relationship between urinary albumin excretion (UAE) and pulse pressure (PP) in cross-sectional studies suggests that pressure pulsatility may contribute to renal microvascular injury. The longitudinal relationships between UAE and the various indices of blood pressure (BP) are not well studied. We compared the associations of UAE with the longitudinal exposure to PP and systolic, di...

Obese and diabetic individuals are at increased risk for impairments in diastolic relaxation and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. The impairments in diastolic relaxation are especially pronounced in obese and diabetic women and predict future cardiovascular disease (CVD) events in this population. Recent clinical data suggest sodium glucose transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibition reduce...