Increased recognition of specific causes of hypertension may lead to therapies that address
specific pathophysiologic mechanisms and cause fewer adverse effects. Research to …

Abstract Purpose of Review This review aims to examine gender differences in both the
epidemiology and pathophysiology of hypertension and to explore gender peculiarities on …

Background—Left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy is an independent risk factor for
cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in hypertensive subjects. Sympathetic activation has …

The detection of left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy on echocardiography is a powerful risk
indicator in essential hypertension. However, the prognostic impact of LV mass values within …

In recent years evidence has been accumulating that the heart rate is a major correlate of
blood pressure, that it may predict the development of sustained hypertension in subjects …

It is clear from many large randomized trials and from the metaanalyses published in the
early 1990s1, 2 that medication treatment of hypertension can be fully protective in reducing …

Gender-based differences found in cardiovascular diseases raise the possibility that
estrogen may have direct effects on cardiac tissue. Therefore we investigated whether …

While it is recognised that gender differences exist in Because of the higher cardiac mortality
in men comcardiovascular disease, it has only recently been ap- pared to women until late …

Background—The increased risk associated with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH)
diagnosed echocardiographically (Echo-LVH) or electrocardiographically (ECG-LVH) is well …

Objectives. This study investigated the effect of age and gender on central arterial
hemodynamic variables derived from noninvasive tonometric carotid pressure waveforms …