A 53-Year-Old Woman with Hypertension and Hypokalaemia

A 53-Year-Old Woman with Hypertension and Hypokalaemia

May 1, 2021 | 0 comments

A 53-year-old woman has been visiting her GP with symptoms of tiredness, muscle weakness and headaches. She is known to be hypertensive and takes amlodipine to control this. Her blood results today show that her potassium level is low at 3.0 mmol/L, and her sodium...
A Case of Difficult to Control Hypertension

A Case of Difficult to Control Hypertension

Mar 1, 2015 | 1 comment

A 53-year-old man returns to your GP surgery for review of his blood pressure medication. He has been seen several times and you have been finding his hypertension difficult to control. He also states that he has been feeling very tired and fatigued of late and is...