Treating Resistant Hypertension With a Neglected Old Drug
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Treating resistant hypertension with a neglected old drug.
Hypertensive patients are said to be resistant to therapy when their pressures exceed goal despite treatment with 3 antihypertensive drugs. The tendency of most clinicians is to treat resistant patients with stronger and stronger agents in higher and higher doses. By contrast, a few reports in the literature suggest surprising usefulness of spironolactone, a relatively weak diuretic, in resista...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hypertension
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0194-911X,1524-4563
DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.0000259806.91169.01