%0 Journal Article %T Study of Carotid Intimal Medial Thickness in Essential Hypertension With or Without Left Ventricular Hypertrophy %A Amanpreet Kaur %A Himanshu Khutan %A K. S. Kajal %A Ravinder Garg %A Rupinderjeet Kaur %A Simmi Aggarwal %J Archive of "Annals of African Medicine". %D 2017 %R 10.4103/aam.aam_9_17 %X Hypertension and atherosclerosis though separate entities, are interrelated as hypertension plays an important role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. This study was undertaken to study the association of carotid intimal medial thickness with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in hypertensive patients %K Carotid intimal medial thickness %K hypertension %K left ventricular hypertrophy %K ¨¦paisseur m¨¦diale de l¡¯intimit¨¦ carotidienne %K hypertension %K hypertrophie ventriculaire gauche %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676410/