2
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: not found
      • Article: not found

      Vascular, cardiac and renal target organ damage associated to arterial hypertension: which noninvasive tools for detection?

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisherPubMed
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Arterial hypertension is a systemic condition characterized by elevated blood pressure in the vascular system. Despite the great effort of scientific community to sensitize population to the problem, enforcing the preventive and treatment measures, this condition continues to be responsible for a large portion of global mortality, as it represents one of the major modifiable risk factors of cardiovascular disease. The significant and substantial clinical implications of high blood pressure on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality are explained by the effect of hypertension on specific organs, particularly sensitive to the effects of changes in blood pressure, resulting cardiac remodeling, cerebrovascular disease, renal failure, atherosclerotic vascular disease, and retinopathy, hence the term "target organ damage". The aim of this review is to give an overview of several noninvasive tools useful in the detection of organ damage related to arterial hypertension.

          Related collections

          Author and article information

          Journal
          Journal of Human Hypertension
          J Hum Hypertens
          Springer Science and Business Media LLC
          0950-9240
          1476-5527
          February 10 2020
          Article
          10.1038/s41371-020-0307-7
          32042074
          c298f30b-5f90-4e95-b543-a94d12681a0e
          © 2020

          http://www.springer.com/tdm

          History

          Comments

          Comment on this article