Overview of resistant hypertension: A glimpse of the cardiologist's current sta...

• Author(s): Paiva, L ; Cachulo, MC ; Providência, R ; Barra, S ; Dinis, P ; Leitão-Marques, A
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.4/1441
• Origin: Repositório do Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra
• Subject(s): Hipertensão
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, resulting in increased incidence of cerebrovascular events, ischaemic heart disease, heart failure, and renal impairment. Thus, it is one of the most important preventable causes of premature morbidity and mortality. Despite current knowledge on the management of hypertension and the availability of several effective antihypertensive medications, uncontrolled hypertension remains a common and challenging clinical problem. Resistant hypertension is a complex condition with multiple contributing factors and overlapping comorbidities. Although there is limited hard evidence regarding resistant hypertension, our understanding of this condition has improved recently. This article will present an overview of resistant hypertension and highlight recent publications about this topic.