[High prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with hypertension of long course].

Background And Objective: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is the most frequent manifestation of cardiac damage in hypertension. The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of LVH in hypertensive patients of long evolution at Primary Care (PC) and to describe their epidemiological profile.

Patients And Method: 915 hypertensive patients treated for more than 5 years with antihypertensive drugs, who were attended in a consecutive way by de PC physicians, were evaluated in a multicentral and descriptive study.