Blood Pressure and Left Ventricular Geometric Changes: A Directionality Analysis

Hypertension. 2021 Nov;78(5):1259-1266. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.121.18035. Epub 2021 Aug 30.

¹ Center on Translational Neuroscience, College of Life and Environment Sciences, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China (M.Y.).
² Children's Minnesota Research Institute, Children's Minnesota, Minneapolis (S.L.).
³ Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, China (Y.Y.).
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (Y.Y., Y.G., C.F., L.B., J.H., W.C.).
⁵ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China (D.S.).
⁶ Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China (T.Z.).

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

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Keywords: blood pressure; causality; left ventricular hypertrophy; longitudinal studies; ventricular remodeling.