Novel Index of Maladaptive Myocardial Remodeling in Hypertension [Magnetic Resonance Imaging]

Conclusions—
We suggest that RI provides an approach for stratifying hypertensive patients and is suitable for testing in other disease cohorts to assess its clinical utility.

Clinical Trial Registration—
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT02670031.

Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging - August 27, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Goh, V. J., Le, T.-T., Bryant, J., Wong, J. I., Su, B., Lee, C.-H., Pua, C. J., Sim, C. P. Y., Ang, B., Aw, T. C., Cook, S. A., Chin, C. W. L. Tags: Heart Failure, High Blood Pressure, Hypertension, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Source Type: research