A comprehensive review of an unmet public health issue: resistant hypertension

ABSTRACT

Resistant hypertension is an intractable problem to patients and physicians. In recent decades, a substantial amount of basic and epidemiological studies provide us a vast number of valuable evidence and information about this once elusive disease. Better understanding about this entity could help physicians improve diagnostic and therapeutic accuracy. In present review, therefore, we first will detail the definition and diagnosis of resistant hypertension between cardiology societies, and followed by the information of prevalence of resistant hypertension around the world, and then briefly discuss currently used different nomenclature of resistant hypertension, and finally present diagnostic and therapeutic strategies of resistant hypertension.

KEYWORDS:

• Epidemiology
• pharmacology
• resistant hypertension

Acknowledgments

We appreciate very much for Monty Voster who improved our paper’s writing and editing.

Declaration of interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Funding

This work was supported by the grant from NSFC (81470571).

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Funding

This work was supported by the grant from NSFC (81470571).