Far Too Few With Treatment-Resistant Hypertension Get Hormone Test
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Millions of Americans with treatment-resistant hypertension are likely not being tested to determine whether their high blood pressure is driven by primary aldosteronism (PA), despite guidelines that call for such an approach, according to findings from the first reported large-scale, multicenter study of PA testing practices.
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@aditi Testing rates also did not change meaningfully over nearly 2 decades...despite an increasing number of guidelines recommending testing for primary aldosteronism in this population