Because of widespread treatment of systemic hypertension, true refractory hypertension is somewhat unusual in the current management of hypertensive disorders. A majority of patients with uncomplicated primary hypertension respond to one or two drugs. Hypertension is considered refractory if the blood pressure cannot be reduced below 140/90 mmHg in patients who are compliant with an [...]
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Implications for Treatment Dementia or normal aging? Cognitive functions may be defined as mental or “thinking” functions, including all verbal and nonverbal cerebral functions involved in the processing of information: learning, memory, perception, association, abstract reasoning, planning, and so on. In normal aging, there is a slight decline of cognitive functions, especially of memory for [...]
Degenerative Joint Disease, Depression, Alzheimer Disease, and Parkinson Disease Hypertension occurs in more than 50 million people in the United States, and thus, it is not uncommon for it to be present in patients with other illnesses. This is particularly the case in the elderly in whom several commonly found illnesses, including degenerative joint disease, [...]
