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Genome-wide study of resistant hypertension identified from electronic health records.

PLoS ONE, 2017
Resistant hypertension is defined as high blood pressure that remains above treatment goals in spite of the concurrent use of three antihypertensive agents from different classes.
Logan Dumitrescu, Marylyn D Ritchie, Joshua C Denny, Nihal M El Rouby, Caitrin W McDonough, Yuki Bradford, Andrea H Ramirez, Suzette J Bielinski, Melissa A Basford, High Seng Chai, Peggy Peissig, David Carrell, Jyotishman Pathak, Luke V Rasmussen, Xiaoming Wang, Jennifer A Pacheco, Abel N Kho, M Geoffrey Hayes, Martha Matsumoto, Maureen E Smith, Rongling Li, Rhonda M Cooper-DeHoff, Iftikhar J Kullo, Christopher G Chute, Rex L Chisholm, Gail P Jarvik, Eric B Larson, David Carey, Catherine A McCarty, Marc S Williams, Dan M Roden, Erwin Bottinger, Julie A Johnson, Mariza de Andrade, Dana C Crawford   +34 more
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Resistant Hypertension: A Clinical Case

Revista Ciencias de la Salud, 2018
Introduction: Secondary hypertension corresponds to 15 % of the causes of arterial hypertension, and among them, primary hyperaldosteronism presents a variable incidence of about 3% in hypertensive patients.
Joana Cascais Costa, João Rua Rua, Amílcar Silva, Adriano Rodrigues   +3 more
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Decoding resistant hypertension signalling pathways [PDF]

, 2017
Resistant hypertension (RH) is a clinical condition in which the hypertensive patient has become resistant to drug therapy and is often associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
Lima, Swiany Silveira, Sandrim, Valeria Cristina, Ricardo Cambraia Parreira, Parreira, Ricardo Cambraia, Resende, Rodrigo Ribeiro, Leandro Heleno Guimarães Lacerda, Guimaraes Lacerda, Leandro Heleno, Rebecca Vasconcellos, Sandrim, Valéria Cristina [UNESP], Valéria Cristina Sandrim, Vanessa Fontana, Fontana, Vanessa, Rodrigo Ribeiro Resende, Santos, Anderson Kenedy, Vasconcellos, Rebecca, Anderson Kenedy Santos, Swiany Silveira Lima   +16 more
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Adipokines: Novel Players In Resistant Hypertension

, 2015
Resistant hypertension (RH) is a multifactorial disease, frequently associated with obesity and characterized by blood pressure above goal (140/90 mm Hg) despite the concurrent use of ≥3 antihypertensive drugs of different classes.
de Faria A.P., Fontana V., Moreno H., Modolo R.   +3 more
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Mechanisms and treatment of resistant hypertension

, 2008
Resistant hypertension is defined as blood pressure (BP) that remains uncontrolled in spite of the use of ≥3 antihypertensive medications. Stricter BP goals, higher obesity rates, older age, and increased use of exogenous BP-elevating substances are ...
Oparil, Suzanne, Krishna K. Gaddam, Pimenta, Eduardo, Eduardo Pimenta, Gaddam, Krishna K., Suzanne Oparil   +5 more
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Prevalence, Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Comorbidities of Resistant Hypertension among Treated Hypertensives in a Nigerian Population

Global Heart
The true prevalence and cardiovascular comorbidities of resistant hypertension in Nigeria and Africa are not known. We sought to determine the prevalence and cardiovascular comorbidities of resistant hypertension in a treated Nigerian hypertensive ...
Olugbenga Olusola Abiodun, Tina Anya, Janefrances Chima Chukwu, Victor Adekanmbi   +3 more
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Novel role of spironolactone in the therapy of resistant hypertension: Spironolactone and resistant hypertension [PDF]

Serbian Journal of Anesthesia and Intensive Therapy, 2019
Spironolactone is a competitive nonselective mineralocorticoid receptor blocker with high affinity for aldosterone; therefore, it is widely used as a diuretic and antihypertensive.
Dragojević-Simić Viktorija, Rančić Nemanja, Dekanski Dragana, Gligorić Danka, Ljubojević Nadežda   +4 more
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Resistant Hypertension or Resistant Prescribing? [PDF]

Hypertension, 2011
See related article, pp 1008–1013 The term “resistant hypertension” (RH) evokes a myriad of clinical descriptions, nearly all of which implicitly ascribe origins of the problem to characteristics inherent within the patient or maleficent qualities of the disease itself.
openaire   +2 more sources

Resistant Hypertension Revisited: Definition And True Prevalence

, 2015
[No abstract available]3271546Smith, S.M., Gong, Y., Handberg, E., Messerli, F.H., Bakris, G.L., Ahmed, A., Predictors and outcomes of resistant hypertension among patients with coronary artery disease and hypertension (2014) J Hypertens, 32, pp.
De Faria A.P., Moreno H., Modolo R., Sabbatini A.R.   +3 more
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Neuroadrenergic disarray in pseudo-resistant and resistant hypertension

, 2014
Several studies have investigated the behavior of sympathetic cardiovascular drive in essential hypertension, providing conclusive evidence of the adrenergic activation characterizing this condition.
Grassi, Guido, Michele Bombelli, Gianmaria Brambilla, Bombelli, Michele, Guido Grassi, Silvia Buzzi, Brambilla, Gianmaria, Marco Volpe, Buzzi, Silvia, Volpe, Massimo   +9 more
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