Key result
Prolonged blood pressure control delays recurrent hypertension after drug withdrawal by reversing cardiovascular hypertrophy.
Why the study?
Changes in amplifying capacities of the hypertrophied heart and resistance vessels explain the evolution of haemodynamic patterns in essential hypertension and the effects of hypertrophy reversal on blood pressure maintenance.
Prolonged BP control may reverse hypertrophy; hypothesis-generating for dual cardiac-vascular reversal to delay post-therapy redevelopment, needing prospective trials.
Changes in amplifying capacities of the hypertrophied heart and resistance vessels account for the characteristic evolution of haemodynamic patterns in the course of essential hypertension. Reversal of hypertrophy in established essential hypertension requires prolonged control of blood pressure. Redevelopment of hypertension on stopping drug therapy is slowest if there has been reversal of both vascular and cardiac hypertrophy. It may be possible to subsequently maintain normal blood pressure in a proportion of patients by non-pharmacological means following the initial period of drug therapy. Preliminary findings suggest that in a majority of patients the sympathetic nervous system may be overactive, whilst a smaller subset may have dysfunction of volume regulation.
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Korner et al. (1985) conducted a review in Essential hypertension. Prolonged control of blood pressure was evaluated. Prolonged control of blood pressure to reverse vascular and cardiac hypertrophy slows the redevelopment of hypertension upon stopping drug therapy.
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