When Blood Pressure Refuses to Budge, What’s Next?

If your blood pressure doesn’t respond to normal efforts to lower it, your physician will want to rule out other causes before trying new medications.

Published: July 20, 2021

When common antihypertension drugs don’t lower high blood pressure, the combination of specific medications and lifestyle changes may do the job after events that cause blood pressure to rise have been ruled out.
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