Results and costs of investigating newly detected hypertensive patients.
1. Eighty unselected hypertensive subjects were investigated at a cost of $78.00 per patient, in a short out-patient study programme. Seven (9%) were found to have a cause for their hypertension; incidental abnormalities were found in twenty-two (28%). 2. The combination of clinical selection and planned out-patient investigation should detect all patients with secondary hypertension.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology* / Q000652:urine; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D014567:Urography