Why the study?
Does renin-aldosterone profiling help classify patients with essential hypertension and detect secondary hypertension?
Population
243 patients with essential hypertension and 89 healthy volunteers
Comparison
Renin-aldosterone profiling vs Healthy volunteers
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Renin profiling may aid secondary hypertension detection; cross-sectional data leave open its value in essential hypertension.
Does renin-aldosterone profiling help classify patients with essential hypertension and detect secondary hypertension?
Renin-aldosterone profiling in hypertension is primarily useful for identifying patients with curable secondary hypertension rather than guiding management of essential hypertension.
Jerry R. Mitchell (1977) studied this question.
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