NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Only 3% of adults at high risk for primary aldosteronism (PA) are screened for the condition, according to a study presented at ENDO 2021, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting. “Primary aldosteronism causes persistently elevated blood…
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Will Scans Help Boost Detection of Resistant Hypertension?
A noninvasive imaging method for identifying whether the source of a patient’s primary aldosteronism is from unilateral or bilateral adrenal adenomas worked as well as the standard method, invasive adrenal vein sampling, in a head-to-head comparison with 143 patients. The…
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