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Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

Editor · Aug 16, 2017 ·

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When the heart must work harder to pump blood because of increased systemic vascular resistance, the heart’s left ventricle muscular walls get thicker, such as a biceps muscle will get larger after weight training,

This is called left ventricular hypertrophy. The most common cause is high blood pressure or hypertension.

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