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The captopril challenge test for diagnosing primary Aldosteronism in a Chinese population

BACKGROUND: The Captopril challenge test (CCT) is an easy-conduct confirmatory test for diagnosing primary aldosteronism (PA). Guidelines show that plasma aldosterone is normally suppressed by captopril (> 30%) in primary hypertension (PH) and in healthy people. It is unclear whether this standar...

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Autores principales: Zhu, Ke-ying, Zhang, Yan, Zhang, Wen-jing, Li, Hong-yun, Feng, Wen-huan, Zhu, Da-long, Li, Ping
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6591899/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31234846
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12902-019-0390-3