Adrenocortical Causes of Hypertension

Primary aldosteronism is the most common cause of secondary hypertension. In the past, screening for primary aldosteronism was offered only in patients with hypertension associated with hypokalemia. Recent studies showed that hypokalemia is seen in only 25% of the patients with primary aldosteronism...

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Autores principales: Moraitis, Andreas, Stratakis, Constantine
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2011
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057029/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21423682
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/624691
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description Primary aldosteronism is the most common cause of secondary hypertension. In the past, screening for primary aldosteronism was offered only in patients with hypertension associated with hypokalemia. Recent studies showed that hypokalemia is seen in only 25% of the patients with primary aldosteronism, which has increased the prevalence of primary aldosteronism to 10–15% of all cases with new onset hypertension.
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spelling pubmed-30570292011-03-21 Adrenocortical Causes of Hypertension Moraitis, Andreas Stratakis, Constantine Int J Hypertens Review Article Primary aldosteronism is the most common cause of secondary hypertension. In the past, screening for primary aldosteronism was offered only in patients with hypertension associated with hypokalemia. Recent studies showed that hypokalemia is seen in only 25% of the patients with primary aldosteronism, which has increased the prevalence of primary aldosteronism to 10–15% of all cases with new onset hypertension. SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2011-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3057029/ /pubmed/21423682 http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/624691 Text en Copyright © 2011 A. Moraitis and C. Stratakis. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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