Does the development of resistant hypertension increase the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with incident hypertension?
Resistant hypertension develops in approximately 2% of treated incident hypertension patients and is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events.
Among patients with incident hypertension in whom treatment was begun, 1 in 50 patients developed resistant hypertension. Patients with resistant hypertension had an increased risk of cardiovascular events, which supports the need for greater efforts toward improving hypertension outcomes in this population.
Daugherty et al. (Thu,) studied this question.