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Does microalbuminuria correlate with target organ damage in patients with essential hypertension?
Does microalbuminuria correlate with target organ damage in patients with essential hypertension?
Microalbuminuria may mark target organ damage in essential hypertension; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical use.
Hypertension is one of the most common disease afflicting humans throughout the world. Target organ damage resulting from hypertension includes those affecting the brain, heart, kidneys and the eyes. Focal neurological deficits, dyspnoea, chest pain, headache, loss of vision are considered as the commonest symptoms with which patients having hypertension related acute target organ damage present.
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