Volume : 5, Issue : 8, August - 2016

PREVALENCE OF LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS IN A COMMUNITY SURVEY IN BHAGALPUR, BIHAR

Dr. Abilesh Kumar, Dr. Baishampayan Goswami

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;Hypertension is one of the leading causes of the global burden of disease. Hypertension doubles the risk of cardiovascular diseases including coronary artery diseases and congestive heart failure. It leads to left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) which add to the ischemic injury to heart. LVH affects the heart in many ways - impaired coronary vasodilator reserve, increased myocardial cell diameter without proportional proliferation of capillary vessels results in decreased capillary density and increased diffusion distance, decreased high energy phosphate content, impaired fatty acid oxidation, reduced myocardial glucose transport into the cell. In our study we look into the prevalence of LVH in patients with hypertension.</p>