Antihypertensive therapy and short-term blood pressure variability

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BACKGROUND AND AIM: Blood pressure variability (BPV) is recognized as a prognostic contributor in hypertension. We aimed to assess differences in short-term BPV in treated hypertensive patients depending on the number, classes, combinations and individual compounds of the antihypertensive treatment.

METHODS: We selected 38 188 treated patients from the Spanish Ambulatory BP Monitoring (ABPM) Registry. SBP and DBP standard deviations (SD) from 24-h, daytime and night-time, weighted SD (WSD), and average real variability (ARV) were calculated through ABPM. They were compared (after adjustment for clinical confounders and BP) depending on the number of antihypertensive drugs, antihypertensive drug classes and compounds (in 13 765 patients on monotherapy), or combinations (in 12 716 patients treated with two drugs and 7888 treated with three drugs).

RESULTS: Systolic and diastolic BPV significantly increased in patients treated with multiple drugs with respect to monotherapy. Among drug classes, calcium channel blockers, especially amlodipine, and diuretics were associated with lower systolic BPV, including daytime and night-time SD, WSD and ARV, compared with beta blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers. Likewise, in patients treated with two-drug and three-drug combinations, those which included a calcium channel blocker showed lower BPV in comparison to those without such drug class.

CONCLUSION: Treatment with calcium channel blockers, especially amlodipine, and with diuretics is associated with slight, but significant lower values of short-term BPV in comparison to other major drug classes, both in monotherapy and in combination. These results could be helpful when considering BPV reduction as an additional treatment target.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:39

Enthalten in:

Journal of hypertension - 39(2021), 2 vom: 01. Feb., Seite 349-355

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

de la Sierra, Alejandro [VerfasserIn]
Mateu, Aina [VerfasserIn]
Gorostidi, Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Vinyoles, Ernest [VerfasserIn]
Segura, Julián [VerfasserIn]
Ruilope, Luis M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

1J444QC288
Amlodipine
Antihypertensive Agents
Calcium Channel Blockers
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 15.10.2021

Date Revised 15.10.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1097/HJH.0000000000002618

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM316012262