Questions tagged [hypertension]

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Causes of hypertension in young, healthy patient?

What are some of the causes of elevated systolic blood pressure in an otherwise young, healthy and asymptomatic patient?
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How do the MOAs differ that ACE-Inhibitors might not work, but Calcium Channel Blockers (CCB) do work

How is it that, for some patients, ACE-Inhibitors can have no measurable effect on the blood pressure (BP), but CCBs work? What has me stumped is how this is theoretically possible.