title: Endocrine hypertension--current understanding and comprehensive management review.
abstract: Hypertension is a very common disease, leading to significant morbidity with reduction in quality of life. In addition to being a major cause of morbidity and mortality, hypertension places a heavy burden on health care systems, families, and society as a whole. In patients with hypertension, the ability to identify a contributing or secondary cause that is potentially curable or amenable to specific forms of management is of great importance. Endocrine hypertension has emerged as one of the common forms of secondary hypertension. Primary aldosteronism, pheochromocytoma and Cushing's syndrome are among the common causes of endocrine hypertension. The application of new clinical, biochemical, and radiologic approaches has significantly advanced our understanding of the pathophysiology and clinical spectrum of these diseases and improved the management strategies of these challenging conditions.
authors.affiliation: Endocrine Unit, Department of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Center, Jalan Yaacob Latif, 56000 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. drlela2020@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Norlela
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sukor
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D019468:Disease Management; D004700:Endocrine System Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy