Contemporary Strategies to Manage High Blood Pressure in Patients with Coexistent Resistant Hypertension and Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction

• Published in: Cardiology and Therapy Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 9 - 25
• Main Authors: Lang, Katherine, Van Iterson, Erik H., Laffin, Luke J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cheshire Springer Healthcare 01.06.2021; Springer
• Subjects: Advances in Heart Failure; Cardiology; Care and treatment; Comorbidity; Heart failure; Hypertension; Internal Medicine; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Review; United States; Heart failure; Hypertension; Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction; Resistant hypertension
• ISSN: 2193-8261; 2193-6544
• DOI: 10.1007/s40119-020-00203-5

Resistant hypertension (RH) represents an advanced subtype of hypertension that is complex to diagnose and treat. Compared with general hypertension, RH increases the risk patients will develop more advanced cardiovascular complications, including heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). As expected, the prevalence of RH has increased since the introduction of lower blood pressure targets included in the recent 2017 American blood pressure guidelines. The array of pharmacotherapies available to treat both hypertension and HFrEF has also expanded within the past decade. However, the efficacy of these cutting-edge pharmacotherapies has not come without a more advanced understanding of the important adjunct role non-pharmacological therapies play in helping with the management of both hypertension and HFrEF. In this review, we provide a summary of the latest pharmacological and non-pharmacological strategies that can be used to initiate treatment and optimize long-term blood pressure control in patients with coexistent RH and HFrEF.