Why the study?
What is the prevalence and what are the determinants of resistant hypertension in an Asian cohort of hypertensive patients?
Population
515 hypertensive patients visiting a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Requires differentiation of true versus pseudo-resistance before escalation; leaves open prospective validation of demographic associations in Asian patients.
What is the prevalence and what are the determinants of resistant hypertension in an Asian cohort of hypertensive patients?
In a Pakistani cohort, 12% of hypertensive patients had true resistant hypertension, which was significantly associated with female gender, older age, obesity, dietary noncompliance, and NSAID use.
Naseem et al. (2017) studied this question.
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