Differential Diagnosis
Other conditions can share features with hypertensive heart disease and need to be considered in the differential diagnosis. For example:
- Coronary artery disease or ischemic heart disease due to atherosclerosis
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Left ventricular hypertrophy in athletes
- Congestive heart failure or heart failure with normal ejection fraction due to other causes
- Atrial fibrillation or other disorders of cardiac rhythm due to other causes
- Sleep apnea
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