Abstract
High blood pressure (BP) is one of the crucial determinants of the metabolic syndrome (MS). The extent to which MS, diagnosed according to the criteria of the International Federation of Diabetes, impacts on cardiovascular organ damage, independently of BP, is debated. Three hundred and forty hypertensive patients and 100 normotensive controls underwent the following procedures: (1) physical examination and resting BP measurements, (2) 24 h ambulatory BP monitoring, (3) laboratory routine examination, (4) echocardiography, (5) carotid ultrasonography and (6) ankle-brachial BP index. The syndrome was found in 104 of the 340 hypertensive patients (30.6). In comparison to those without MS, those with MS had significantly higher prevalence of left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy by mass/height2.7 criteria (46 vs 42%, P<0.01) but not by LV mass/body surface criteria (30 vs 31%); the ratio between early-to-late peak velocities of the LV filling waves (E/A) was higher (E/A=0.99±0.14 vs 0.89±0.15, P<0.01) and left atrium was larger (3.8±0.3 vs 3.5±0.5 cm, P<0.01). Both hypertensive groups had significantly greater LVM and carotid intima-media thickness than normotensives, without between-group-difference. In this hypertension outpatient clinic almost one-third hypertensive patients have MS. They show a deterioration in structure and function of the heart in comparison to hypertensive patients without MS, but no difference was detected in the carotid and peripheral arterial circulation.
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Ferrara, L., Guida, L., Ferrara, F. et al. Cardiac structure and function and arterial circulation in hypertensive patients with and without metabolic syndrome. J Hum Hypertens 21, 729–735 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jhh.1002222
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