Ryunosuke Okuyama, Junnichi Ishii, Hiroshi Takahashi, Hideki Kawai, Takashi Muramatsu, Masahide Harada, Akira Yamada, Sadako Motoyama, Shigeru Matsui, Hiroyuki Naruse, Masayoshi Sarai, Midori Hasegawa, Eiichi Watanabe, Atsushi Suzuki, Mutsuharu Hayashi, Hideo Izawa, Yukio Yuzawa, Yukio Ozaki
Additional risk stratification may provide more aggressive and focalized preventive treatment to high-risk hypertensive patients according to the Japanese hypertension guidelines. We prospectively investigated the predictive value of high-sensitivity troponin I (hsTnI), both independently and in combination with N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), for incident heart failure (HF) in high-risk hypertensive patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). Baseline hsTnI and NT-proBNP levels and echocardiography data were obtained for 493 Japanese hypertensive outpatients (mean age, 68...
July 2017: Heart and Vessels