Inter-Arm Blood Pressure Difference and Resistant Hypertension

The prevalence of hypertension is high in the Jamaican population, aggravated by the domination of the African Black origin of this community. It is also very obvious that most of the patients of hypertension are using multiple medications and most of them without true control. We tried in this study to correlate the presence of resistant hypertension and the inter-arm blood pressure difference. It is unclear to what extent inter-arm blood pressure (BP) differences are related to resistant hypertension. The present study was designed to resolve this issue especially for the True-drug induced resistant hypertension.