Science27.06.2023 - 10:11

Hypertension: one in ten patients are resistant to hypertension treatment

Doctors told how to get rid of hypertension, if traditional treatment does not help.

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Scientists have studied electronic medical records of about 2.5 million patients, half of whom suffer from hypertension, and found that 8.5%, that is almost 114 thousand people, have resistant to treatment hypertension. such data leads Hypertension.

A resistant form of hypertension can be suspected if a patient follows all the recommendations of a doctor, is not stressed, and takes four or more antihypertensive medications to control blood pressure, but there is no improvement.

According to experts at the Smidt Heart Institute, such patients are best treated with mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs). However, because of the difficulty in diagnosing this form of hypertension, such treatment is used in only 11% of patients with drug-resistant hypertension.

Earlier, a specialist told us what most often causes blood pressure spikes in people of age.

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