Overcoming Challenges in Hypertension Management

What You Will Learn

  • How to evaluate the prevalence of hypertension (HTN), its uncontrolled rates, and its impact on public health using current statistics.
  • Tips on implementing practical, culturally appropriate methods for treating patients with HTN, including addressing challenges in medication adherence.
  • Applying the HTN Guidelines by identifying new blood pressure (BP) classifications, thresholds for pharmacological therapy, and special considerations for high-risk populations.
  • How to analyze the role of polypharmacy and combination therapy in HTN patients, particularly strategies to enhance patient adherence and manage resistant HTN.
  • How to design individualized treatment plans for complex HTN cases, balancing polypharmacy, racial and socioeconomic disparities, and contemporary approaches to patient education.

Clinical Spotlight Series

Learn to identify the disparities in hypertension management and the importance of overcoming these challenges.

 

Improving Patient Adherence

Strategies to improve adherence in HTN patients, including communication tactics, shared decision making, and monitoring BP outside of the office.

 

Resistant Hypertension Management

Recognize resistant HTN management strategies, including a step-wise approach to guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) and triggers for referring to an HTN specialist.

 

Customized Treatment Strategies: Special Considerations for Subgroups

Understand how to customize treatment plans and patient adherence strategies based on key patient considerations.

 

We are grateful to these distinguished faculty who contributed to this collection:

Faculty Chair

Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, FACC

 

Topic Leads:

Patient Adherence – Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, FACC 

Intensification of Therapy – Suzanne Oparil, MD, FACC  

Resistant HTN – George L. Bakris, MD 

Customized Treatment Strategies – Pam Taub, MD, FACC 

RDN – David E. Kandzari, MD, FACC 

BP Measurement – Eugene Yang, MD, FACC 

 

Faculty

Ajay J. Kirtane, MD, FACC 

Aldo Peixoto, MD 

Angela L. Brown, MD 

Ashish Sarraju, MD 

Chloe D. Villavaso, MN, APRN, ACNS-BC, CMC, FPCNA 

Ciantel Adair Blyler, PharmD, CHC 

David P. Lee, MD, FACC 

Debbie Cohen, MD

Emily Shou Wai Lau, MD, FACC 

Eric A. Secemsky, MD, FACC 

Eric J. MacLaughlin, PharmD 

Fatima Rodriguez, MD, MPH, FACC 

Felix Mahfoud, MD 

Jacquelyn P. Kulinski, MD 

John M. Flack, MD, MPH 

Joseph Ebinger, MD, MS, FACC 

Joseph J. Saseen, PharmD 

Karol E. Watson, MD, FACC 

Kevin B. Sneed, PharmD 

Lakshmi S. Tummala, MD, FACC 

Leslie L. Davis, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN, FAANP, FACC 

Lorrel E.B. Toft, MD, FACC 

Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC 

Michael Miller, MD, FACC 

Monika Sanghavi, MD, FACC 

Payal Kohli, MD, FACC 

Raymond R. Townsend, MD 

Renée Bullock-Palmer, MD, FACC 

Sandra J. Taler, MD 

Suvasini Lakshmanan, MD, MS

Taisei John Kobayashi, MD, FACC 

Tammy Brady, MD, PhD 

Thomas M. Todoran, MD, FACC

William B. White, MD 

Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, PhD, MHS, RN 

 

Additional Peer Reviewers:

Emily Kaufman, NP 

Frank Cintineo, PharmD 

Gesalle Martinez, RN 

Joycelle Martinez, NP 

Leslie Ranek, ARNP, FNP-BC 

Lori-Ann Peterson, FNP, AG/ACNP, AACC 

Margaret Allison, PharmD, BCACP 

Mary Cordon, PharmD 

Mary Zorzanello, APRN, MSN 

Maureen J. Reis, NP-C 

Suzanne Hennings, ARNP, MSN 

Svetlana Zaharova, PhD, FNP 

William Elliott, MD, PhD 

Educational Grant Support Provided By: Medtronic

Page Launched: November 2021 

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