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Hyperaldosteronism 2025 guidelines

  Hyperaldosteronism 2025 guidelines  Modest, Geoffrey (HMFP - Medicine) ​ Modest, Geoffrey (HMFP - Medicine) ​   a recent clinical practice guideline for primary aldosteronism was just published by the Endocrine Society: see  aldosteronism practice guideline JClinEndoMetab2025  in dropbox, or doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgaf284). this is a 43 page document, so i will present their major recommendations applicable to the primary care outpatient setting, with my commentary (thanks to Ian Huntington for bringing this to my attention) Recommendations -- All patients with hypertension should be screened for primary aldosteronism (PA) by measuring aldosterone and renin levels, and determining the aldosterone-to-renin ratio     -- very little direct data supporting this (only one large retrospective VA study), finding that very few people were screened for PA (1.6%)         -- international studies in Canada, Australia and several E...