[Functional status of the cardiovascular system in young persons with moderate arterial hypertension]

Hemodynamic and functional cardiac parameters were examined in 24 normal subjects and 43 patients with moderate arterial hypertension, grouped on the basis of their mean hemodynamic pressure. Considerable sex-specific differences were demonstrated in cardiovascular status and performance of both normal and hypertensive individuals. Young boys and girls showed different compensatory cardiac response to stressful pressure that may be attributed to different degrees of left-ventricular myocardial hypertrophy.