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What is the management of essential hypertension discovered incidentally?

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Question added by hedia missaoui , médecin de famille dans mon propre cabinet médical , cabinet médical privé
Date Posted: 2016/01/15
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first of all do not depend on one record to diagnose HTN unless it is equal or more than/

use ambulatory BP monitoring for hours or home chart for7 days then calculate the mean BP if it's above/ in non-diabetic so treat...

if age is below start with ACEIs like captopril

if age is above or black race use CCB like amlodipine