Bernardo Chedier, Fabio de Souza, Bianca Viegas, Fernanda Oliveira C Carlos, Taissa Lorena Dos Santos, Hugo Farah Affonso Alves, Lucca Hiroshi de Sá Kimura, Carolina de Carvalho Fortes, Marcus Vinicius Serejo Borges V da Silva, Camila Bello Nemer, Sofia Luz Botelho Lobo, Bianca Zattar de Mello Barreto, Vitor de Melo Nolasco, João Gabriell Bezerra da Silva, João Gabriel Rega do N Vallaperde, Elizabeth Silaid Muxfeldt
OBJECTIVE: To determine prognostic value of true refractory hypertension diagnosis in a large cohort of resistant hypertensives. DESIGN AND METHOD: Prospective cohort study enrolled 835 patients of a large historical cohort of RHTN. After at least 6 months of follow-up, 147 (17.6%) patients remained refractory to treatment in ABPM despite the use of 5 or more drugs, including a thiazide-like diuretic and spironolactone. All of them were submitted to a standard protocol including laboratory tests, ABPM, echocardiography, and pulse wave velocity (PWV)...
June 1, 2022: Journal of Hypertension