Hypertension-mediated organ damage involving multiple sites is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular events.
Maria LemboDaniela PacellaMaria Virginia ManziCarmine MoriscoLucia La MuraCostantino MancusiLuca BardiValentina TrimarcoTrimarco BrunoRaffaele IzzoGiovanni EspositoPublished in: European heart journal open (2023)
In hypertensive patients, the risk of MACE increases with the incremental number of districts involved by HMOD, independent of BP control and despite the significant impact of metabolic dysregulation. Hypertension-mediated organ damage involving multiple sites is the deleterious consequence of hypertension and dysmetabolism but, when established, it represents an independent cardiovascular risk factor for MACE occurrence.