CONSTITUTIONAL FEATURES OF LEFT VENTRICULAR REMODELING OPTIONS IN WOMEN WITH ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION WHO PREVIOUSLY LIVED IN THE ARCTIC REGION

Purpose. To study the constitutional features of left ventricular (LV) remodeling options in women with arterial hypertension (AH) who previously lived in the Arctic region. Materials and methods. The study involved 362 women with hypertension. The main group included 181 women with hypertension who had previously lived in the Arctic. We used the standard method of anthropometric research with the subsequent determination of constitutional types, as well as the determination of the types of geometric remodeling of the LV according to the ultrasound examination of the heart. Results. The constitutional features of the frequency of unfavorable types of remodeling in women of the surveyed groups revealed. The presence of LV remodeling revealed in 89.5% of those examined with hypertension, former residents of the Arctic and in 93.7% of women with hypertension, permanently residing in Krasnoyarsk. At the same time, both among women in the Arctic and among women in Krasnoyarsk, the most common type of LV myocardial geometry was concentric LV hypertrophy: 62.2% and 63.0%. It found that LV concentric hypertrophy was more common in all constitutional types in women with hypertension, both in residents of the Arctic and in permanent residents of Krasnoyarsk. Conclusion. It found that LV concentric hypertrophy was more common in all constitutional types in women with AH in both groups. Normal LV geometry more often observed in women of the Polar region of an indefinite constitutional type, and among women in Krasnoyarsk – a megalosomal type.