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#390 Resistant Hypertension

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Beta Blockers as a First Line Antihypertensive Agent

I would still use an MRI as my fourth agent just based off of this preponderance of evidence supporting that as the fourth drug. We should not be using beta blockers in particular as first line antihypertensive agents. I'm a big fan of either using the patch or using guanphocene which is another central alpha agonist that works exactly the same way as plonodine does.

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