The captopril challenge test for diagnosing primary Aldosteronism in a Chinese population

BACKGROUND: The Captopril challenge test (CCT) is an easy-conduct confirmatory test for diagnosing primary aldosteronism (PA). Guidelines show that plasma aldosterone is normally suppressed by captopril (> 30%) in primary hypertension (PH) and in healthy people. It is unclear whether this standar...

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Published in:BMC Endocr Disord
Main Authors: Zhu, Ke-ying, Zhang, Yan, Zhang, Wen-jing, Li, Hong-yun, Feng, Wen-huan, Zhu, Da-long, Li, Ping
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6591899/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31234846
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12902-019-0390-3
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