Learn About Hypertensive Heart Disease
Hypertensive heart disease refers to heart problems that occur because of high blood pressure that is present over a long time.
Hypertension - hypertensive heart; High blood pressure - hypertensive heart
High blood pressure means the pressure inside the blood vessels (called arteries) is too high. As the heart pumps against this pressure, it must work harder. Over time, this causes the heart muscle to thicken.
Because there are often no symptoms with high blood pressure, people can have the problem without knowing it. Symptoms most often do not occur until after many years of poor blood pressure control, when damage to the heart has occurred.
Eventually, the muscle may become so thick that it does not get enough oxygen. This can cause angina (chest pain). Without appropriate blood pressure control, the heart muscle can weaken over time and heart failure may develop.
High blood pressure also leads to thickening of the blood vessel walls. When combined with cholesterol deposits in the blood vessels, the risk of heart attack and stroke increases.
Hypertensive heart disease is the leading cause of illness and death from high blood pressure.
Contact your health care provider if you have high blood pressure and develop any symptoms.
Diagnosing high blood pressure early can help prevent heart disease, stroke, eye problems, and chronic kidney disease.
All people age 18 and older should have their blood pressure checked every year. More frequent measurement may be needed for those with a history of high blood pressure readings or those with risk factors for high blood pressure.
Guidelines can change as new information becomes available, Therefore, your provider may recommend more frequent checks based on your blood pressure levels and other health conditions.
If your blood pressure is high, you need to lower it and keep it under control.
- Do not stop or change high blood pressure medicines without talking to your provider.
- Carefully control diabetes and high cholesterol.
The Medical University Of South Carolina Foundation
Michael Zile is a Cardiologist in Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Zile is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hypertensive Heart Disease. His top areas of expertise are Heart Failure, Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), Hypertensive Heart Disease, Pacemaker Implantation, and Cardiac Ablation.
Texas Health Heart And Vascular Specialists
Jorge Cheirif, M.D., was born and raised in Mexico City. He obtained his medical degree from the National University of Mexico and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.Cheirif is the director of the non-invasive cardiology lab, medical director of the Hispanic Initiative, and immediate past president and director of the Behavioral Event Review Committee (BERC) at Texas Health Dallas. He also serves as chair of the Heart & Vascular Accreditation Case Manager (HV-ACM) strategy committee. He is board-certified in cardiovascular diseases and internal medicine, focusing on consultative cardiology, echocardiography, CT angiography and cardiac catheterization.Cheirif was on the American Heart Association local affiliate board of directors for two years; has received the Clinician Scientist Award from the American Heart Association; and was named Teacher of the Year by Ochsner Clinic, Texas Health Dallas, and Baylor College of Medicine. In addition, he has been named to Best Doctors in Dallas and Texas Super Doctors for 10 years. Cheirif speaks Spanish, Yiddish and Hebrew, and lives in Dallas with his wife, Heidy. Dr. Cheirif is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hypertensive Heart Disease. His top areas of expertise are Pediatric Myocarditis, Necrosis, Aortic Regurgitation, and Mitral Valve Regurgitation.
Advocate Heart Institute
Sunil Pauwaa is an Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist in Oak Lawn, Illinois. Dr. Pauwaa is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hypertensive Heart Disease. His top areas of expertise are Heart Failure, Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease, Pulmonary Hypertension, Heart Transplant, and Lung Transplant.
Objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of using a food product, dry finely dispersed beetroot powder in a dose of 20 g, containing 800 mg of nitrate (NO3-), in relation to the regulation of blood pressure in men with hypertension who reached the target blood pressure level while taking optimal antihypertensive therapy. Characteristics of the study: randomized, open, and cross-sectional. Relevance of the st...
Summary: By harnessing artificial intelligence to decode the 12-lead electrocardiogram, the project will enable precise ECG-based phenotyping of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-accurately classifying septal, apical, and other morphologic subtypes-while simultaneously differentiating HCM from hypertensive heart disease, aortic stenosis, and other phenocopy disorders.
Published Date: February 27, 2024
Published By: Thomas S. Metkus, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Also reviewed by David C. Dugdale, MD, Medical Director, Brenda Conaway, Editorial Director, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.
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