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SUBMITTER: Coppolino G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6464209 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Coppolino Giuseppe G Pisano Anna A Rivoli Laura L Bolignano Davide D
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 20170221
<h4>Background</h4>Resistant hypertension is highly prevalent among the general hypertensive population and the clinical management of this condition remains problematic. Different approaches, including a more intensified antihypertensive therapy, lifestyle modifications, or both, have largely failed to improve patients' outcomes and to reduce cardiovascular and renal risk. As renal sympathetic hyperactivity is a major driver of resistant hypertension, renal sympathetic ablation (renal denervati ...[more]