Drug-Resistant Hypertension
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 12:21
in Health & Medicine
Specialists in infectious disease worry about drug resistance all the time. The most difficult challenge in the fight against bacterial infection is to stay out in front of the organisms before they develop resistance to medications. But what happens when the organism is us and the disease is high blood pressure? An increasing number of patients are failing to respond to blood pressure medications. It's what's known as resistant hypertension—blood pressure that remains elevated even after treatment with three or more different medications. read more