Resistant and Refractory Hypertension: Antihypertensive Treatment Resistance vs Treatment Failure
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Refractory and Resistant Hypertension: Antihypertensive Treatment Failure versus Treatment Resistance
Resistant hypertension has for many decades been defined as difficult-to-treat hypertension in order to identify patients who may benefit from special diagnostic and/or therapeutic considerations. Recently, the term "refractory hypertension" has been proposed as a novel phenotype of antihypertensive failure, that is, patients whose blood pressure cannot be controlled with maximal treatment. Ear...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Cardiology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0828-282X
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2015.06.033