Obesity alone | Hypertension alone | Obesity and hypertension | |
Variable | |||
Heart rate | Normal | Normal | Normal |
Blood pressure | Normal | Increased | Increased |
Stroke volume | Increased | Normal | Increased |
Cardiac output | Increased | Normal | Increased |
Systemic vascular resistance | Decreased | Increased | Normal or increased |
LV volume | Increased | Normal | Increased |
LV wall stress | Normal or increased | Normal or increased | Increased |
LV hypertrophy | Eccentric | Concentric | Hybrid |
LV diastolic dysfunction | Usually present | Usually present | Usually present |
LV systolic dysfunction | Occasionally present | Usually absent | Occasionally present |
LV failure | Occasionally present | Occasionally present | Commonly present |
RV hypertrophy | Occasionally present | Usually absent | Occasionally present |
RV enlargement | Occasionally present | Usually absent | Occasionally present |
RV failure | Occasionally present | Usually absent | Occasionally present |
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