Overcoming Challenges in Hypertension Management

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Overcoming Challenges in Hypertension Management

What You Will Learn

Recognize the missteps, and importance of accurate blood pressure (BP) measurement and apply accurate techniques in various situations to overcome the challenges in hypertension (HTN) care.
Identify optimal strategies to improve patient adherence.
Explore the latest trials and science in renal denervation (RDN) as an innovative approach to hypertension management.

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: 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 ➔

Improving Patient Adherence

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

Strategies to Improve Patient Adherence ➔

Renal Denervation

Understand the RDN trials and the recent implications for your clinical practice.

RDN For HTN Management ➔

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

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

Tammy Brady, MD, PhD

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