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Individualized treatment strategies for hypertension are proposed based on patient-specific characteristics such as ethnicity and plasma renin reactivity.
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Highlights the growing consensus for individualized hypertension treatment based on patient-specific characteristics like ethnicity and plasma renin reactivity.
A recent series of articles in the American Journal of Hypertension (JW Cardiol Nov 3 2010) reflects the growing consensus that decisions regarding hypertension treatment should be individualized and that algorithms for individual treatment approaches should be developed and tested. In two accompanying editorials, Morris Brown and Curt Furberg propose treatment strategies based on the findings of the studies. A Patient-Based Approach Focusing on heterogeneity in the response of individual patients to various antihypertensive drugs, Brown describes how various patient-specific characteristics such as ethnicity and plasma renin reactivity (PRA) relate to the probable pathophysiologic mechanisms of hypertension, depicted as a spectrum with pure volume overload (which responds very favorably to volume-depleting agents such as diuretics and calcium-channel blockers) at …
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JoAnne M. Foody (2010) conducted an editorial in Hypertension. Individualized antihypertensive treatment strategies was evaluated. Individualized treatment strategies for hypertension are proposed based on patient-specific characteristics such as ethnicity and plasma renin reactivity.
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