Resistant Hypertension | American Diabetes Association

 

 

Volume 5, Issue 11
June 2014

 

MP3

 

Resistant Hypertension

Lecture by:

Jan Basile, MD, Professor of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston

Case

Patient: 66-year-old male auto worker with longstanding hypertension presents with knee pain.

Medications: hydrochlorothiazide (12.5 mg), atenolol (50 mg), lisinopril (20 mg), felodipine (10 mg), all once a day. (He has had poorly controlled hypertension for several years.) He takes naproxen (Aleve) twice a day for pain.

Patient characteristics: Nonsmoker; drinks a 6-pack of beer every evening...

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Podcast Type: 
Diabetes Insight
Publication Date: 
Monday, June 9, 2014 - 23:30
Authors: 
Jan Basile, MD