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Systemic hypertension leads to increased afterload, resulting in concentric left ventricular hypertrophy as an adaptive response. Chronic hypertension also causes aortic root dilation and elevated filling pressures leading to left atrial enlargement.

Restrictive cardiomyopathy primarily shows normal wall thickness with impaired filling. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy involves asymmetric septal hypertrophy. Pulmonary hypertension mainly affects the right heart.

This association is outlined in the "Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography, 6e", Chapter on Hypertensive Heart Disease【20:345-350†Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography】.