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Resistant hypertension: do all definitions describe the same patients?
Journal of human hypertension - 1 Sept 2015
Boswell L, Pascual J, Oliveras A
Abstract excerpt
Resistant hypertension (RH) is defined as blood pressure (BP) that remains ⩾140 and/or 90 mm Hg despite therapy with ⩾3 full-dose antihypertensive drugs (classical definition=CD). A definition proposed subsequently (new definition=ND) includes patients requiring ⩾4 drugs irrespective of BP values. We aimed to evaluate whether both definitions characterize the same kind of patients.One hundred and twenty-four...
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