Why the study?
What are the clinical characteristics that differentiate renovascular hypertension from essential hypertension?
Population
175 patients with renovascular hypertension cured by surgery and 339 patients with essential hypertension
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Clinical features may aid suspicion for renovascular hypertension; leaves open prospective validation of duration and LVH as surgical response predictors.
What are the clinical characteristics that differentiate renovascular hypertension from essential hypertension?
Renovascular hypertension presents with distinct clinical characteristics compared to essential hypertension, and longer duration of hypertension predicts poorer surgical response.
N. Simon (1972) studied this question.
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