The relationship between left ventricular geometric remodeling and cardiac function in essential hypertension.

Background: Abnormal left ventricular (LV) diastolic relaxation is an early sign of hypertensive heart disease. Whether diastolic dysfunction differs between LV geometric patterns remains controversial.

Methods And Results: We examined 220 hypertensive patients by echocardiography to assess the relationship between diastolic function and LV geometric pattern.