Is cardiovascular remodeling in patients with essential hypertension related to more than high blood pressure?
Apart from being associated with a high BP burden, cardiovascular remodeling was associated with high levels of circulating epinephrine, aldosterone, as well as angiotensin II, suggesting a beneficial effect above and beyond the effect of BP reduction when using antihypertensive agents blocking the receptors of these neurohormonal factors.
The increased level of troponin I on admission is not a prognostic factor of direct mortality within IS patients. We noticed that occurrence of disturbances in patient's EKG places those patients in the group of increased risk of death.