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Melvin D Lobo1,2, Paul A Sobotka3,4, Atul Pathak5
1Barts BP Centre of Excellence, Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
Insights
Managing hypertension remains challenging. New interventional procedures offer hope for patients with uncontrolled blood pressure (BP) or drug intolerance, complementing traditional drug therapies.
Area of Science:
- Cardiovascular Medicine
- Nephrology
- Clinical Pharmacology
Background:
- Effective hypertension management is crucial globally, yet non-drug measures often fail.
- Poor blood pressure (BP) control persists despite available drug therapies, highlighting unmet clinical needs.
- Non-adherence to antihypertensive medications due to side effects is a significant barrier to treatment success.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review novel interventional procedures for hypertension management.
- To evaluate the safety and efficacy of emerging antihypertensive technologies.
- To discuss the role of interventions for patients intolerant to or unresponsive to medication.
Main Methods:
- Review of current literature on interventional hypertension management.
- Analysis of emerging devices targeting sympathetic nervous system and mechanical circulatory aspects.
- Assessment of early safety and efficacy data from clinical studies.
Main Results:
- Novel interventional procedures are emerging as treatment options for resistant hypertension.
- These interventions target both neurogenic and mechanical factors influencing blood pressure.
- Early data suggest promising safety and efficacy profiles for these new technologies.
Conclusions:
- Interventional procedures represent a promising new frontier in hypertension management.
- Further rigorous randomized controlled trial data are essential for establishing these as standard care.
- These approaches offer alternatives for patients with medication intolerance or inadequate BP control.
Abstract:
Hypertension management poses a major challenge to clinicians globally once non-drug (lifestyle) measures have failed to control blood pressure (BP). Although drug treatment strategies to lower BP are well described, poor control rates of hypertension, even in the first world, suggest that more needs to be done to surmount the problem. A major issue is non-adherence to antihypertensive drugs, which is caused in part by drug intolerance due to side effects. More effective antihypertensive drugs are therefore required which have excellent tolerability and safety profiles in addition to being efficacious. For those patients who either do not tolerate or wish to take medication for hypertension or in whom BP control is not attained despite multiple antihypertensives, a novel class of interventional procedures to manage hypertension has emerged. While most of these target various aspects of the sympathetic nervous system regulation of BP, an additional procedure is now available, which addresses mechanical aspects of the circulation. Most of these new devices are supported by early and encouraging evidence for both safety and efficacy, although it is clear that more rigorous randomized controlled trial data will be essential before any of the technologies can be adopted as a standard of care.
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