Journal of Diabetes Research

Research Article

Clinical Characteristics of Target Organ Damage in Primary Aldosteronism with or without Metabolic Syndrome

Table 4

Target organ damage in patients with bilateral and unilateral patients with or without MS.


	Bilateral PA			Unilateral PA
	MS (-) ()	MS (+) ()	value	MS (-) ()	MS (+) ()	value

Parameters
LVDd (mm)			0.50			0.02
IVST (mm)			0.04			<0.001
LVMI			0.82			0.04
IMT (mm)			0.85			0.002
Creatinine	67.0 (50.2-69.2)	69.6 (52.1-75.2)	0.73	57.0 (47.5-66.2)	65.7 (57.1-82.7)	0.002
Incidence of organ damage
Hypertensive heart disease (%)	30.70	50.0	0.05	30.2	56.7	<0.001
Coronary heart disease (%)	11.5	6.5	0.39	5.2	16.4	0.01

Data are expressed as the , median (25th–75th percentiles), or raw numbers. , , and . PA: primary aldosteronism; MS: metabolic syndrome; LVDd: left ventricular diameter; IVST: interventricular septal thickness; LVMI: left ventricular mass index; IMT: intima-media thickness.