Hypertension is related to increased amounts of epicardial fat, to myocardial fibrosis and to left-ventricular contractility disturbances despite a normal systolic left-ventricular ejection fraction. However, the presence of stable coronary atherosclerotic disease in general - and with no cardiac damage due to prior coronary pathologies - does not additionally affect these parameters.
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