- When we today in primary diagnoses a patient with high blood pressure usually we take an ECG, exa

Published bronchitis 2010-12-21 by Eva Bartonek Category: Feature, heart and blood vessels. Keywords: hypertension, primary aldosteronism View Box! A lot of patients bronchitis with high blood pressure can have an adrenal disease bronchitis as the cause of their high blood pressure. Primary care should be better at paying attention to this disease.
It says district physician Christina Westerdahl in his recent dissertation from Lund University. She emphasizes that the disease - so-called primary aldosteronism, PA - can be treated and sometimes cured, so that these patients do not experience life-long blood pressure treatment. Undetected cases
Up one-quarter bronchitis of the adult population in Sweden has high blood pressure, usually without been able to find any underlying cause. bronchitis Christina Westerdahl have including new diagnostic methods examined 200 newly diagnosed and untreated blood pressure patients, and found that about 5.5 percent had binjuresjukdomen PA. It shows that some of the cases of high blood pressure may be due to undetected PA - perhaps especially those patients who currently three or four different drugs for their high blood pressure, because the usual standard medication had no effect.
- When we today in primary diagnoses a patient with high blood pressure usually we take an ECG, examine the heart, lungs and peripheral vessels as well as take blood and urine samples. However, the survey reveals PA (the ratio between the hormones aldosterone and renin) are not included in the routine, says Christina Westerdahl. Can be cured
She believes that these samples should be taken at least on all newly discovered younger patients, and in those whose high blood pressure remains despite various drugs. If a patient is found to have the PA, so the disease can sometimes be cured by surgery. In other cases, medication with an agent that specifically inhibits the elevated aldosterone production. The treatment gives a good control of blood pressure.
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The district physician Christina Westerdahl defended recently at Lund University with a thesis entitled "Primary bronchitis aldosteronism. Screening and Diagnosis in Primary Health Care". Photo: bronchitis Olle Dahlbäck RELATED MATERIAL Read more
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