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SUBMITTER: Oscullo G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6912579 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oscullo Grace G Torres Gerard G Campos-Rodriguez Francisco F Posadas Tomás T Reina-González Angela A Sapiña-Beltrán Esther E Barbé Ferrán F Martinez-Garcia Miguel Angel MA
Journal of clinical medicine 20191105 11
Hypertension is one of the most frequent cardiovascular risk factors. The population of hypertensive patients includes some phenotypes whose blood pressure levels are particularly difficult to control, thus putting them at greater cardiovascular risk. This is especially true of so-called resistant hypertension (RH) and refractory hypertension (RfH). Recent findings suggest that the former may be due to an alteration in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone axis, while the latter seems to be more clo ...[more]