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Can high blood pressure cause the heart to enlarge and weaken?

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  1. cardio
    Member

    yes high blood pressure will cause the left ventricle to enlarge. this is called LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY

    Posted 2 years ago #

  2. Dr. VIKAS
    Member

    Any thing that increases pumping load on heart or devoids heart of oxygen and nutreints can cause it to hypertrophy (increasing muscle size of heart) eventually fail and enlarge.

    Long standing untreated Hypertension(increase in BP) does both-

    1. It makes heart exert more to pump same amount of blood , thus increased load on heart

    2. It is a risk factor of ATHEROSCLEROSIS (occlusive disease of coronary arteries supplying heart with oxygen and required nutreints)

    Controll hypertension. Best drugs for controlling BP and specifically preventing heart enlargement ARE---

    1.. ACE inhibitors -- ramipril, enalapril, lisinopril

    2. Angiotensin receptor blockers -- Losartan, valsartan, candysartan, olmesartan, telmisartan

    kindly rate this

    Posted 2 years ago #

  3. gangadharan nair
    Member

    Potential complications of hypertensive heart disease are:-
    * Left ventricular hypertrophy
    * Coronary heart disease
    * Congestive heart failure
    * Hypertensive cardiomyopathy
    * Cardiac arrhythmias
    Diagnostic tests include chest X-ray and Echocardiography.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  4. aziz
    Member

    yes, hypertensive cardiomyopathy.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  5. pacemaker
    Member

    yes the doctor told me i had untreated high b.p, led to heart failure.

    Posted 1 year ago #

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