Publications by authors named "Margaret Peggy Dreker"
Objective: The objective of this review was to examine the best available evidence on the risk factors for hypertensive crisis in adult patients with hypertension.
Introduction: Hypertensive crisis is an acute severe elevation in blood pressure, which can present as hypertensive urgency or emergency. In contrast to hypertensive urgency, which is a markedly elevated blood pressure without acute target organ damage, hypertensive emergency is associated with equally high blood pressure in the presence of potentially life-threatening target organ damage, such as myocardial infarction, stroke, pulmonary edema, or acute kidney injury.