Sex-specific ventricular morphology, function, and tissue characteristics in arterial hypertension: a magnetic resonance study of the Hamburg city health cohort.

There are sex-dependent differences in arterial hypertension, but it is unclear if cardiac MR parameters are sex-specific. Differences in cardiac MR parameters between hypertensive subjects and healthy controls appeared to be sex-specific for tissue characteristics. Sex needs to be considered when comparing tissue characteristics in patients with arterial hypertension to healthy controls.