Prevalence and characteristics of resistant hypertensive patients in an Asian population.

CONCLUSION: Nearly one in ten hypertensive patients had true resistant hypertension, and twenty-five percent of patients had pseudo-resistance. Resistance hypertensions is significantly associated with female gender, older age, obesity, dietary noncompliance and increased use of NSAIDs.
PMID: 28822508 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Indian Heart J - July 1, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Naseem R, Adam AM, Khan F, Dossal A, Khan I, Khan A, Paul H, Jawed H, Aslam A, Syed FM, Niazi MA, Nadeem S, Khan A, Zia A, Arshad MH Tags: Indian Heart J Source Type: research