When your patient's blood pressure won't come down.
Is your patient's persistent hypertension really resistant to treatment, or are other factors at work? Consider these 2 cases and let this algorithm help you decide.
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Randy
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The Ohio State University, 456 W 10th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. Randy.Wexler@osumc.edu
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Christopher
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Pleister
Adam
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Feldman
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