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Article: Primary Aldosteronism in 20% of Hypertension.
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- Internal Medicine News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The prevalence of primary aldosteronism--a potentially curable form of secondary hypertension--approaches the level predicted by Dr. Jerome Conn, who discovered the disorder in 1964 and speculated that 20% of all patients with hypertension would have primary aldosteronism.
Dr. Conn's prediction, long considered to be highly inflated, was found to be not so far off the mark in a series of recent studies and surveys.
One study found primary aldosteronism in 66 (6%) of 1,046 hypertensive patients screened using 50 mg of captopril, with the diagnosis based on lack of aldosterone suppression upon acute volume expansion, Dr. Giuseppe ...