Abstract:
:We studied hypertrophic patterns in the electrocardiograms of 60 Nigerian hypertensives. Thirty were in heart failure and 30 without failure (matched for age and sex). Combined left ventricular and left atrial hypertrophy was the commonest finding occurring in 58.3%, followed by left ventricular hypertrophy alone in 30%. 76.7% and 40% had combined left ventricular and left atrial hypertrophy in the heart failure and the non-heart failure groups, respectively (P less than 0.02). Though these changes increased with increased blood pressure, the latter is similarly severe in both groups. 100% of patients in Class IV failure had combined left ventricular and left atrial hypertrophy. The 3 patients who had additional right atrial hypertrophy were in Class IV failure, 2 of whom died during follow-up. These changes are much more marked at presentation than reprots in caucasians and even in previous reports in Africans. The changes reflect the long-standing nature and severity of the hypertensive process, and point to the fact that the majority of hypertensives in this environment present rather late.
journal_name
Int J Cardioljournal_title
International journal of cardiologyauthors
Olubodun JO,Cole TO,Falase AO,Olatunde S,Lawal Adoi
10.1016/0167-5273(91)90129-dsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1991-01-01 00:00:00pages
97-102issue
1eissn
0167-5273issn
1874-1754pii
0167-5273(91)90129-Djournal_volume
30pub_type
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