Clinical features and course of arterial hypertension in patients with its various forms

Aim. To study the main risk factors, clinical, laboratory and instrumental data, concomitant cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and associated clinical conditions in patients with controlled and uncontrolled hypertension, controlled resistant and uncontrolled resistant hypertension, refractory hypertension, and probably resistant and probably refractory hypertension based on retrospective analysis. Materials and methods. The study included 455 patients with hypertension. All patients were divided into 7 groups. The group of controlled hypertension included 240 patients (52.75%), controlled resistant hypertension - 61 (13.4%), uncontrolled hypertension - 10 (2.2%), uncontrolled resistant hypertension - 53 (11.65%), refractory hypertension - 63 (13.8%), probably resistant hypertension - 15 (3.3%), probably refractory hypertension - 13 (2.9%). Anamnesis (assessment of the duration and age of the onset of arterial hypertension, assessment of the presence of CVD), risk factors for the development of hypertension (obesity, dyslipidemia, impaired glucose tolerance and fasting glycemia, hyperuricemia, family history of CVD, early menopause in women; heart rate >80 beats/min, smoking), laboratory parameters (creatinine, glucose, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, uric acid) and instrumental methods of examination (ECG, echocardiography, clinic mean 24h BP, Holter monitoring, duplex BCA scanning) were assessed in all groups of patients based on the analysis of the medical history. Results. In this article we presented the results of a comparative analysis of patients with controlled hypertension, uncontrolled resistant hypertension, refractory and probably refractory hypertension. Patients with refractory hypertension were significantly more young, non-smokers and females compared with patients with uncontrolled resistant hypertension and controlled hypertension. Patients with refractory hypertension had greater prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy according to ECG and echocardiography (p<0.05). Fundus lesions were found exclusively in patients with uncontrolled hypertension, 55% of cases were found in the group of refractory hypertension (p<0.05). There were no significant differences in the presence of BCA atherosclerosis between the groups. Patients with refractory hypertension were significantly more likely to have heart failure, a history of stroke and transient ischemic attack compared with patients from the group of controlled hypertension (p<0.05). There was no significant difference in the presence of chronic kidney disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, atrial fibrillation between the groups. Conclusion. Patients with refractory hypertension are significantly more likely to have target organ damage and concomitant cardiovascular, cerebrovascular diseases than patients with controlled hypertension.

cardiovascular diseases, refractory arterial hypertension, resistant arterial hypertension

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