Introduction: In our setting there is a lack of publications on female hypertension
in general population motivating this study to look for electro- and
echocardiographic findings of female hypertension. Methods: We performed
a cross-sectional study during 6 months in the cardiology department of the
UH-GT including 324 female patients aged 18 and more seen in the outpatient
unit and by whom the diagnosis of hypertension was set. All patients
consented to be study participants after receiving clearly information about
the study and that care giving will not be affected by their eventual refusal.
Data collection has been done with all needed confidentiality rules. A survey
formular was used to collect data in order to record them in an Access database.
Analysis was done using IBM SPSS software. Quantitative data are presented
as mean with standard deviation and qualitative as proportion. Level
of significance for statistic test was set at 5%. Results: During the study time
324 among 524 hypertensive patients visited our outpatient unit giving a prevalence
of fHTN of 61.8%. The means for age, body mass index (BMI) in female
hypertensive patients were respectively 52 ± 14.461 years and 27.35 ±
06.585 Kg/m2. Main ECG findings were left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH)
and sinus tachycardia with respectively 93.6% and 46.4% followed by isolated
ventricular extrasystole with 33.7%. Echocardiography findings included LVH,
relative wall thickness (RWT) and reduced ejection fraction (EF) in respectively
41.05%, 37.35% and 21.91%. The left ventricular mass (LV) mass and
geometry were abnormal in 44.4% and 37.3%. Remodeling as geometry modification
(18.2%) and mitral flow Type 2 (90.4%) have been the most abnormal
findings. Conclusion: Hypertension induced modifications mainly LVH
in ECG and Echocardiography in female patients less than encountered among
male hypertensive patients.

Hypertension, Female, ECG, Echocardiography