Furthermore a separate study from the Framingham population showed that in hypertensive patients with an echocardiographic diagnosis of LVH the presence of complex or frequent ventricular ectopy (≥class 2 on Lown grading system) on 1 h ECG recordings was associated with a marginally significant increase in all-cause mortality (hazard ratio 1.62).
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Is hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy a cause of sustained ventricular arrhythmias in humans?
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