Difference in left ventricular mass index between hypertensive patients with and without renal artery stenosis by propensity score analysis.

This study aimed to define the difference in cardiac hypertrophy between hypertensive patients with and without renal artery stenosis (RAS). When cardiac ultrasonographic examination was performed in 971 consecutive hypertensive outpatients, renal peak systolic velocity (PSV) was examined. Compared with patients without RAS, those with RAS (PSV ≥180 cm/s, 4.