Physiologic Tailoring of Treatment in Resistant Hypertension
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Physiologic Tailoring of Treatment in Resistant Hypertension
Resistant hypertension is a major opportunity for prevention of cardiovascular disease. Despite widespread dissemination of consensus guidelines, most patients are uncontrolled with approaches that assume that all patients are the same. Causes of resistant hypertension include 1) non-compliance 2) consumption of substances that aggravate hypertension (such as salt, alcohol, nonsteroidal anti-in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Cardiology Reviews
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1573-403X
DOI: 10.2174/157340310791162695