A middle-aged woman with obesity, hyperlipidaemia and diet-controlled diabetes was referred for resistant hypertension. Her blood pressure (BP) was uncontrolled on five medications, including a diuretic. Physical exam revealed a systolic ejection mur...
Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine
Oct 27, 2025
OBJECTIVES: Use of machine learning (ML) in diagnostics offers promise to optimise interpretation of laboratory data and guide clinical decision-making. For this, ML-based outputs should provide robustly reproducible results at least as good as the u...
PURPOSE: Primary aldosteronism (PA) is prevalent among hypertensive patients, and associated with worsened cardiovascular outcomes compared to essential hypertension (HT). Screening and diagnostics for PA are currently complicated and invasive, why n...
Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)
May 1, 2025
Given the largely unexplored application of liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) steroid analysis in primary aldosteronism (PA), we aimed to investigate its diagnostic utility in PA classification and to characterize steroid secr...
OBJECTIVE: Hypertension is a major cardiovascular risk factor affecting about 1 in 3 adults. Although the majority of hypertension cases (∼90%) are classified as "primary hypertension" (PHT), endocrine hypertension (EHT) accounts for ∼10% of cases an...
Zhong nan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Central South University. Medical sciences
Nov 28, 2023
OBJECTIVES: The effect of three-dimensional (3D) printed bone-attached guide plate assisted cannulated screw fixation of pelvic fracture is reliable, but extensive soft tissue dissection is still required when installing the guide plate. This study a...
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