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Betacoronavirus , Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control , Kidney Transplantation , Pandemics/prevention & control , Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control , Renal Dialysis , COVID-19 , Coronavirus Infections/diagnosis , Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology , Coronavirus Infections/transmission , Europe , Humans , Immunocompromised Host , Information Dissemination , Nephrology , Patient Education as Topic , Pneumonia, Viral/diagnosis , Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology , Pneumonia, Viral/transmission , SARS-CoV-2 , Societies, Medical , Spain , Symptom Assessment/methods , United StatesABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION: We aimed to assess the effectiveness of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) and subclinical target organ damage parameters for diagnosis of resistant hypertension (RH). METHODS: We assessed demographic and anthropometric variables, the incidence of cardiovascular events and subclinical target organ damage (n=112). We also studied the relationship between these variables and the ABPM results. RESULTS: Of the 112 patients referred from primary care with a diagnosis of RH, 69 (61.6%) were confirmed by ABPM. We found statistically significant differences (P<.001) between patients with RH and pseudo-resistant hypertension in the appearance of subclinical target organ damage. A percentage of 84 of the patients had microalbuminuria: 66.25±30.7mg/dl); 44.9% had stage 3 chronic kidney disease: the average glomerular filtration was 59ml/min/1.73m2; and 56.5% had left ventricular hypertrophy on echocardiography. Fundoscopy revealed that 64% of the patients had hypertensive retinopathy. Three variables were associated with an increased HR risk: microalbuminuria, hypertensive retinopathy and left ventricular hypertrophy (OR 5.7, 6.2 and 11.2, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: This study shows that the systematic testing for target organ damage, particularly in terms of albuminuria, is a simple and inexpensive tool, with a high predictive value for RH (85%), which could be useful for prioritising patients who need ABPM.
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Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory , Hypertension/diagnosis , Adult , Albuminuria/diagnosis , Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory/methods , Cross-Sectional Studies , Female , Glomerular Filtration Rate , Heart Rate , Humans , Hypertension/complications , Hypertension/drug therapy , Hypertensive Retinopathy/diagnosis , Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular/diagnostic imaging , Male , Middle Aged , Prospective Studies , Regression Analysis , Renal Insufficiency, Chronic/diagnosisABSTRACT
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