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Heart and Prehypertension

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Prehypertension and Cardiometabolic Syndrome

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Asymptomatic alterations of the cardiovascular system reflect intermediate stages in the disease continuum linking risk factors such as high blood pressure (BP), hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, obesity, and smoking to cardiovascular fatal and nonfatal events. In particular, a variety of manifestations of subclinical target organ damage such as left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), LV systolic/diastolic dysfunction, abnormalities in small, medium, and large size arteries, and renal impairment have been reported to be associated with systemic hypertension [1, 2].

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  1. Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Cesare Cuspidi & Guido Grassi

  2. Clinical Research Unit, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Meda, Italy

    Cesare Cuspidi

  3. Department of Cardiology, Charité-University-Medicine Campus Virchow Klinikum, Berlin, Germany

    Marijana Tadic

  4. IRCCS Multimedica, Sesto San Giovanni, Milan, Italy

    Guido Grassi

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Cuspidi, C., Tadic, M., Grassi, G. (2019). Heart and Prehypertension. In: Zimlichman, R., Julius, S., Mancia, G. (eds) Prehypertension and Cardiometabolic Syndrome. Updates in Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75310-2_12

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