The effect of renal denervation on arterial stiffness, central blood pressure and heart rate variability in treatment resistant essential hypertension : a substudy of a randomized sham-controlled double-blinded trial (the ReSET trial)

OBJECTIVES: To investigate, whether renal denervation (RDN) improves arterial stiffness, central blood pressure (C-BP) and heart rate variability (HRV) in patients with treatment resistant hypertension.

METHODS: ReSET was a randomized, sham-controlled, double-blinded trial (NCT01459900). RDN was performed by a single experienced operator using the Medtronic unipolar Symplicity FlexTM catheter. C-BP, carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV), and HRV were obtained at baseline and after six months with the SphygmoCor®-device.

RESULTS: Fifty-three patients (77% of the ReSET-cohort) were included in this substudy. The groups were similar at baseline (SHAM/RDN): n = 27/n = 26; 78/65% males; age 59 ± 9/54 ± 8 years (mean ± SD); systolic brachial BP 158 ± 18/154 ± 17 mmHg; systolic 24-hour ambulatory BP 153 ± 14/151 ± 13 mmHg. Changes in PWV (0.1 ± 1.9 (SHAM) vs. -0.6 ± 1.3 (RDN) m/s), systolic C-BP (-2 ± 17 (SHAM) vs. -8 ± 16 (RDN) mmHg), diastolic C-BP (-2 ± 9 (SHAM) vs. -5 ± 9 (RDN) mmHg), and augmentation index (0.7 ± 7.0 (SHAM) vs. 1.0 ± 7.4 (RDN) %) were not significantly different after six months. Changes in HRV-parameters were also not significantly different. Baseline HRV or PWV did not predict BP-response after RDN.

CONCLUSIONS: In a sham-controlled setting, there were no significant effects of RDN on arterial stiffness, C-BP and HRV. Thus, the idea of BP-independent effects of RDN on large arteries and cardiac autonomic activity is not supported.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:26

Enthalten in:

Blood pressure - 26(2017), 6 vom: 22. Dez., Seite 366-380

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Peters, Christian Daugaard [VerfasserIn]
Mathiassen, Ole Norling [VerfasserIn]
Vase, Henrik [VerfasserIn]
Bech Nørgaard, Jesper [VerfasserIn]
Christensen, Kent Lodberg [VerfasserIn]
Schroeder, Anne Pauline [VerfasserIn]
Rickers, Hans Joachim von Hofe [VerfasserIn]
Opstrup, Ulla Kampmann [VerfasserIn]
Poulsen, Per Løgstrup [VerfasserIn]
Langfeldt, Sten [VerfasserIn]
Andersen, Gratien [VerfasserIn]
Hansen, Klavs Würgler [VerfasserIn]
Bøtker, Hans Erik [VerfasserIn]
Engholm, Morten [VerfasserIn]
Bertelsen, Jannik Buus [VerfasserIn]
Pedersen, Erling Bjerregaard [VerfasserIn]
Kaltoft, Anne [VerfasserIn]
Buus, Niels Henrik [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Arterial stiffness
Central blood pressure
Heart rate variability
Journal Article
Pulse wave velocity
Randomized Controlled Trial
Randomized controlled trial
Renal denervation

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 29.06.2018

Date Revised 08.04.2022

published: Print-Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01459900

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/08037051.2017.1368368

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM275032280