Evaluation of elevated blood pressure.
The clinical laboratory is essential to the successful and complete evaluation of the patient with hypertension. A reasonably thorough knowledge of the important physiologic components of blood pressure regulation, in conjunction with a good history and physical examination and a simple panel of screening tests serve to detect or rule out the presence of secondary forms of hypertension in the majority of patients.
Townsend
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Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.
DiPette
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D000307:Adrenal Gland Diseases / Q000150:complications; D001774:Blood Chemical Analysis; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology / Q000652:urine; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000150:complications; D016482:Urinalysis