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• TITLE: ECG and Echocardiographic Findings of Female Hypertension (fHTN) in the Cardiology Department of the University Hospital Gabriel Touré (UH-GT)

  AUTHORS: Hamidou Oumar Bâ, Ibrahima Sangaré, Youssouf Camara, Kassim Kamaté, Tawoufik Tchedre, Georges Rosario Christian Millogo, Djénébou Traoré, Noumou Sidibé, Fousseyni Samassékou, Massama Konaté, Coumba Thiam Doumbia, Asmaou Maiga, Réné-Marie Dakouo, Hamidou Camara, Adama Sogodogo, Boubacar Diarra, Mamadou Touré, Boubacar Sonfo, Aladji Traoré, Mamadou Diakité, Ilo Bella Diall, Ichaka Menta

  KEYWORDS: Hypertension, Female, ECG, Echocardiography, Mali

  JOURNAL NAME: World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases, Vol.13 No.10, October 20, 2023

  ABSTRACT: Introduction: In our setting there is a lack of publications on female hypertension in general population motivating this study to look for electro- and echocardiographic findings of female hypertension. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study during 6 months in the cardiology department of the UH-GT including 324 female patients aged 18 and more seen in the outpatient unit and by whom the diagnosis of hypertension was set. All patients consented to be study participants after receiving clearly information about the study and that care giving will not be affected by their eventual refusal. Data collection has been done with all needed confidentiality rules. A survey formular was used to collect data in order to record them in an Access database. Analysis was done using IBM SPSS software. Quantitative data are presented as mean with standard deviation and qualitative as proportion. Level of significance for statistic test was set at 5%. Results: During the study time 324 among 524 hypertensive patients visited our outpatient unit giving a prevalence of fHTN of 61.8%. The means for age, body mass index (BMI) in female hypertensive patients were respectively 52 ± 14.461 years and 27.35 ± 06.585 Kg/m2. Main ECG findings were left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and sinus tachycardia with respectively 93.6% and 46.4% followed by isolated ventricular extrasystole with 33.7%. Echocardiography findings included LVH, relative wall thickness (RWT) and reduced ejection fraction (EF) in respectively 41.05%, 37.35% and 21.91%. The left ventricular mass (LV) mass and geometry were abnormal in 44.4% and 37.3%. Remodeling as geometry modification (18.2%) and mitral flow Type 2 (90.4%) have been the most abnormal findings. Conclusion: Hypertension induced modifications mainly LVH in ECG and Echocardiography in female patients less than encountered among male hypertensive patients.