How excess weight can alter the heart's structure and function
Obesity significantly impacts cardiovascular health, increasing risks such as left ventricular hypertrophy, atherosclerosis, and hypertension. Pharmaceuticals play a crucial role in addressing these ...
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Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an abnormal thickening ... electrical activity takes longer to traverse throughout the whole heart, thus the duration of the QRS complex may be widened.
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Cardiac hypertrophy articles from across Nature Portfolio
Cardiac hypertrophy is the abnormal enlargement, or thickening, of the heart muscle, resulting from increases in cardiomyocyte size and changes in other heart muscle components, such as ...
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The pathogenesis of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Early and evolving effects from an α-cardiac myosin heavy chain missense mutation
Although end-diastolic pressures were not substantially higher, diastolic stiffness was slightly increased, and at heart rates near ... Hearts were weighed and gross anatomic examinations were ...