Determinants of aortic root dilatation over time in patients with essential hypertension: The Campania Salute Network

Determinants of changes of aortic root dimension over time are not well defined.We investigated whether specific phenotype and treatment exist predicting changes in aortic root dimension in hypertensive patients from the Campania Salute Network.N = 4856 participants (age 53 ± 11 years, 44% women) were included. At first and last available echocardiograms, we measured aortic root and a z-score of aortic root (AOz) was generated as the difference...