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#390 Resistant Hypertension

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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How to Use Beta Blockers to Treat Resistant Hypertension

With a woman, I tend to start with sprenolactone because it's more potent than a player known. If someone has BPH, of course, I will very gladly have them treated with one of those agents sooner. But if they don't have an indication to be on it, then I tend to shy away unless there is a specific reason. And just about everybody unless there's a counter indication, for instance, if their potassium is more than four and a half in chronic kidney disease patients, I'll shy away from using it.

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