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Clinical Case 3: Patient with Diabetes Mellitus

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A 72-year-old, Caucasian female, retired (former schoolteacher), presented to the outpatient clinic for clinical assessment of uncontrolled hypertension. The patient refers history of essential hypertension by the menopause status (about 20 years ago). She was treated with unspecified drugs that she does not remember. By about 10 years, she is treated with an alpha-1 blocker (doxazosin, 2 mg/day) and a Ca-antagonist (amlodipine, 5 mg), with satisfactory home and office blood pressure control. By about 6 months, she reported elevated home blood pressure values, confirmed by his general practitioner. She added a thiazide diuretic, without any blood pressure changes. In the meantime, she never changed her usual daily pills intake or the drugs’ brand.

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Virdis, A. (2016). Clinical Case 3: Patient with Diabetes Mellitus. In: Hypertension and Comorbidities. Practical Case Studies in Hypertension Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39164-9_3

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