Abstract: | In patients with familial arterial hypertension and their relatives preclinical signs of myocardial hypertrophy were observed before the formation of stably increased blood pressure. We evaluated echocardiographic sings of left ventricular myocardial hypertrophy in normotensive relatives of patients with arterial hypertension. __________ Translated from Byulleten’ Eksperimental’noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 140, No. 12, pp. 625–626, December, 2005 |