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Blood pressure
Identifiable causes of hypertension

List of identifiable causes of hypertension (source: US Department of Health and Human Services, 2004)

Identifiable Causes of hypertension

Chronic kidney disease

Coarctation of the aorta

Chushing’s syndrome, other gluccocorticoid excess states, chronic steroid therapy

Drug induced or drug related

Obstructive uropathy

Pheochromocytoma

Primary aldosteronism and other mineralcorticoid excess states

Renovascular hypertension

Sleep apnea

Thyroid or parathyroid disease