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Induced vomiting for attention seeking and secondary gain: An unusual cause of pseudo-resistant hypertension

In patients with complex psychosocial history presenting with resistant hypertension, observed therapy should be implemented early on to avoid unnecessary investigations and delayed diagnosis.

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Autores principales: Zakka, Katerina, Bitar, Mohamad, Lakkis, Bassel, Koubar, Sahar H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5542088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28811906
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2054270417717667
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spelling pubmed-55420882017-08-15 Induced vomiting for attention seeking and secondary gain: An unusual cause of pseudo-resistant hypertension Zakka, Katerina Bitar, Mohamad Lakkis, Bassel Koubar, Sahar H JRSM Open Case Report In patients with complex psychosocial history presenting with resistant hypertension, observed therapy should be implemented early on to avoid unnecessary investigations and delayed diagnosis. SAGE Publications 2017-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5542088/ /pubmed/28811906 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2054270417717667 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Zakka, Katerina
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Lakkis, Bassel
Koubar, Sahar H
Induced vomiting for attention seeking and secondary gain: An unusual cause of pseudo-resistant hypertension
title Induced vomiting for attention seeking and secondary gain: An unusual cause of pseudo-resistant hypertension
title_full Induced vomiting for attention seeking and secondary gain: An unusual cause of pseudo-resistant hypertension
title_fullStr Induced vomiting for attention seeking and secondary gain: An unusual cause of pseudo-resistant hypertension
title_full_unstemmed Induced vomiting for attention seeking and secondary gain: An unusual cause of pseudo-resistant hypertension
title_short Induced vomiting for attention seeking and secondary gain: An unusual cause of pseudo-resistant hypertension
title_sort induced vomiting for attention seeking and secondary gain: an unusual cause of pseudo-resistant hypertension
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5542088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28811906
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2054270417717667
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