Overcoming Challenges in Hypertension Management

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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.

Blood Pressure Measurement

Understand the best approaches to BP measurement for HTN care patients.

Self-Paced Learning

Test Your Knowledge: HTN BP Measurement MythBusters ➔

Infographic

Mismeasurement Of BP In The Office (Downloadable pdf) ➔ Mismeasurement Of BP In The Office: Finding the Common Mistakes ➔

Interactive Lesson

Misunderstandings and Continuous Mismeasurement of BP ➔

Patient Case Quizzes

Fact or Fiction Case 1: A 63-Year-Old Woman With Unstable Angina ➔ Fact or Fiction Case 2: A 64-Year-Old Asian Man's First-Time Evaluation ➔ Fact or Fiction Case 3: A 25-Year-Old Man With Class 3 Obesity ➔ Fact or Fiction Case 4: An 80-Year-Old Man With Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia ➔ Fact or Fiction Case 5: A 55-Year-Old Woman With Uncontrolled HTN ➔ Fact or Fiction Case 6: A 78-Year-Old Man to Rule Out Resistant HTN ➔

Clinical Spotlight Series

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

HTN: The Persisting Needs and Latest Science ➔

Improving Patient Adherence

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

Podcasts

HTN Management Series - Adherence in the HTN Patient: A Team-Based Approach ➔

Quick Tips Video

Quick Tips to Improve Patient Adherence ➔

Renal Denervation

Understand the renal denervation (RDN) trials and the recent implications for your clinical practice.

Procedural Video

Radiofrequency Ablation Procedure ➔

Patient Case Quizzes

What are the Clinical Indications for RDN Therapy? ➔ Radiofrequency Ablation – Uncontrolled or Resistant Hypertension? ➔ Ultrasound Ablation – Uncontrolled or Resistant Hypertension? ➔ Refractory Hypertension ➔ RDN Review and Clinical Trial Experience ➔

Intensification of Therapy

Learn how to develop an intensification antihypertensive treatment plan.

Podcasts

HTN Management Series - Regaining Control of HTN with Intensification of Therapy ➔

Patient Case Quizzes

How Low Can You Go? Intensification of Antihypertensive Therapy in a 65-Year-Old Patient ➔

Quick Tips Video

Practical Tips to Intensify Antihypertensives ➔

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.

Patient Case Quizzes

Cardiorenal Risk Reduction in HTN with Advanced-Stage Nephropathy ➔

Patient Case Quizzes

Evaluation and Treatment of Medication Adherence: Look Out for "White Coat" HTN ➔

Quick Tip

Quick Tips to Manage Resistant HTN ➔

Customized Treatment Strategies: Special Considerations for Subgroups

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

Podcast

HTN Management Series - The Underestimated Impact of Lifestyle on HTN ➔

Patient Case Quiz

Race/Ethnicity Considerations for BP Management: A 58-Year-Old Man with Newly Diagnosed Stage 2 HTN ➔

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