Population
1,191 adult hypertensive patients on antihypertensive therapy for at least 6 weeks, presenting to a tertiary…
Design
Cross-sectional
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May indicate diuretic underuse in hypertension care; hypothesis-generating for barriers to guideline-concordant prescribing.
In a Pakistani tertiary care center, most hypertensive patients were on combination therapy, but diuretic use was low (31%), indicating a gap between clinical practice and guideline recommendations.
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