Fig. 1. Effects of hypertension on left ventricular (LV) mass and diastolic function. Hypertensive women show high LV mass index (A) and diastolic function index of E/e' ratio (B) compared with normotensive women in both middle and late trimester of pregnancy. Normotensive: normotensive women, Hypertensive: hypertensive women, E: early diastolic transmitral blood flow velocity, e': early diastolic mitral annular velocity.