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Man, 48 years old, entrepreneur, non-smoker, and overall healthy. One year ago, after the third intercontinental flight in a month, he experienced a syncope and was recovered in an emergency department. During the short permanence in the emergency room, a standard 12-lead ECG and a brain TC did not show any pathological signs. The patient refused to continue the test because he felt fine, but the BP at the admission was 182/96 mmHg and at the discharge 168/92 mmHg. Then he refused to take any kind of medicine and to be further visited.
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Cicero, A.F.G. (2016). Clinical Case 3: Patient with Essential Hypertension and Familial Hypercholesterolaemia. In: Hypertension and Metabolic Cardiovascular Risk Factors. Practical Case Studies in Hypertension Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39504-3_3
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