[Arterial hypertension, left ventricular hypertrophy, and ventricular arrhythmias].

Patients with hypertensive heart disease have frequently ventricular arrhythmias in the 24-h-holter-EKG. Those patients with severe forms of arterial hypertension have more high grade ventricular tachycardia than those with less severe hypertension. Sudden cardiac death in arterial hypertensive seems to be linked with the prevalence of coronary artery disease, whereas LV hypertrophy is only a co-factor.