How to assess non-compliance with the pharmacotherapy in severe resistant hypertension?

Abstract

Resistant arterial hypertension is defined by impossibility to normalize blood pressure to normal limits (140/90 mmHg) using at least combination of three antihypertensive drugs including a thiazide diuretic.

Keywords

• Resistant hypertension
• compliance with antihypertensive treatment
• liquid chromatography
• tandem mass spectrometry