Table 1. Shows the nature of the studies.
| Control | HTN | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Coronary Blood Flow measurement Methodology | N | % men | Age (yrs) | LV mass | N | % men | Age (yrs) | LV mass |
| Strauer et al. 1979 | Argon gas with catheter in the coronary sinus | 12 | na | na | 71 g/m2 | 63 | na | na | na |
| Nichols et al. 1980 | Xenon-133 washout | 9 | 33 | 50 | 76 g/m2 | 17 | 41 | 46 | 119 g/m2 |
| Polese et al. 1991 | Thermodilution with catheter in coronary sinus | 9 | 100 | 51 | 114 g/m2 | 15 | 100 | 51 | 151 g/m2 |
| Hamada et al. 1998 | Myocardial uptake of thallium-201 | 14 | 71 | 45 | 89 g/m2 | 40 | 68 | na | 154 g/m2 |
| Wallbridge & Cobbe 1996 | Doppler flow probe in left main coronary artery | 8 | 63 | 46 | 106 g/m2 | 7 | 57 | 52 | 209 g/m2 |
| Hamasaki et al. 2000 | Doppler flow probe in LAD | 68 | 44 | 50 | na | 43 | 30 | 54 | 148 g/m2 |
| Sasaki et al. 2000 | Myocardial uptake of thallium-201 | 22 | 64 | 57 | 89 g/m2 | 62 | 65 | 54 | 135 g/m2 |
| Misawa et al. 2002 | Doppler flow probe in LAD or LCX | 10 | 70 | 51 | 104 g/m2 | 12 | 58 | 58 | 163 g/m2 |
| Schafer et al. 2002 | Argon gas with catheter in the coronary sinus | 13 | 77 | 55 | 44 g/m2.7 | 23 | 52 | 60 | 58 g/m2.7 |
| Takechi et al. 2003 | Doppler flow probe in LAD | 10 | na | 62 | 94 g/m2 | 16 | na | 60 | 183 g/m2 |
| Cusmà-Piccione et al. 2014 | Doppler flow probe in LAD | 88 | 55 | 51 | 100 g/m2 | 45 | …. . | …… | ….. |
| LAD is left anterior descending coronary artery LV mass – left ventricular mass | |||||||||
| LCX left circumflex coronary artery | |||||||||
| na is not available or able to be extracted from the paper yrs – years | |||||||||