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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on February 24, 2009
European Heart Journal 2009 30(6):638-639; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehp064
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2009. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Prevention of congestive heart failure in high risk patients

Kristian Wachtell*

Department of Cardiology, The Heart Center B2142, Rigshospitalet, 9 Blegdamsvej, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

* Corresponding author. Tel: +45 3545 0888, Fax: +45 45866084, Email: kristian@wachtell.net

This editorial refers to ‘Blood pressure reduction and renin–angiotensin system inhibition for prevention of congestive heart failure: a meta-analysis’{dagger}, by P. Verdecchia et al., on page 679

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Congestive heart failure, in particular with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction, is increasing in incidence. Hypertensive disease is also increasing, and data suggest that this is a major contributor to the increasing incidence of congestive heart failure. In addition, there are data suggesting that patients with hypertension not only have a high prevalence of impaired left ventricular diastolic function,1 but in particular when left ventricular hypertrophy is present also have a high prevalence of impaired left ventricular myocardial function2 that in turn can lead to congestive heart failure. Furthermore, there are also data suggesting even more complex relationships between left ventricular systolic and diastolic function and that these conditions are in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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