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Open Access 01-12-2016 | Review

Obesity and hypertensive heart disease: focus on body composition and sex differences

Authors: Giovanni de Simone, Costantino Mancusi, Raffaele Izzo, Maria Angela Losi, L. Aldo Ferrara

Published in: Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome | Issue 1/2016

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Abstract

There is evidence that hypertension is frequently associated with overweight/obesity even in kids and adolescents. Either conditions influence development of left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy (LVH), through different biological and hemodynamic mechanisms: obesity is conventionally thought to elicit a coherent growth of LV chamber dimensions and myocardial wall thickness (eccentric LV geometry), whereas a more accentuated increase in wall-thickness (concentric LV geometry) is attributed to hypertension. While during youth these differences are visible, proportion of LV concentric geometry, the most harmful LV geometric pattern, sharply raises in obese individuals during middle age, and becomes the most frequent geometric patterns among obese-hypertensive individuals. Two conditions with elevated hemodynamic impact, severe obstructive sleep apnea and masked hypertension contribute to the development of such a geometric pattern, but non-hemodynamic factors, and specifically body composition, also influence prevalence of concentric LV geometry. Contrasting a general belief, it has been observed that adipose mass strongly influences LV mass, particularly in women, especially when fat-free mass is relatively deficient. Thus, though blood pressure control is mandatory for prevention and reduction of LVH in obese hypertensive patients, without reduction of visceral adiposity regression of LVH is difficult. Future researches should be addressed on (1) assessing whether LVH resulting from alteration of body composition carries the same prognosis as pressure overload LVH; (2) defining tissue characterization of the hypertrophic heart in obese-hypertensive patients; (3) evaluating whether assessment of hemodynamic loading conditions and biological markers can help defining management of the association of obesity with hypertension.
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Metadata
Title
Obesity and hypertensive heart disease: focus on body composition and sex differences
Authors
Giovanni de Simone
Costantino Mancusi
Raffaele Izzo
Maria Angela Losi
L. Aldo Ferrara
Publication date
01-12-2016
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome / Issue 1/2016
Electronic ISSN: 1758-5996
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13098-016-0193-x

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