Blood Pressure Target Achievement Under Monotheraphy: A Real-Life Appraisal.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite hypertension guidelines suggest that the most effective treatment strategy to improve blood pressure (BP) target achievement is to implement the use of combination treatment, monotherapy is still widely used in the clinical practice of hypertension.

Aim

To investigate BP control under monotherapy in the setting of real-life.

Methods

We extracted data from a medical database of adult outpatients who were referred to the Hypertension Unit, Sant'Andrea Hospital, Rome (IT), including anthropometric data, CV risk factors and comorbidities, presence or absence of antihypertensive therapy and concomitant medications. Among treated hypertensive patients, we identified only those under single antihypertensive agent (monotherapy). Office BP treatment target

SUBMITTER: Tocci G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7661417 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature