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Home blood pressure-guided antihypertensive therapy in chronic kidney disease: more data are needed.

ΤίτλοςHome blood pressure-guided antihypertensive therapy in chronic kidney disease: more data are needed.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2018
AuthorsGeorgianos, P. I., Champidou E., Liakopoulos V., Balaskas E. V., & Zebekakis P. E.
JournalJ Am Soc Hypertens
Volume12
Issue4
Pagination242-247
Date Published2018 04
ISSN1878-7436
Abstract

In the era of newly introduced hypertension guidelines recommending lower blood pressure (BP) targets for drug-treated hypertensives, the necessity for optimized management of hypertension becomes even more urgent. The concept of home BP-guided antihypertensive therapy is for long suggested as a simple and feasible approach to improve BP control rates and optimize the management of hypertension. Home BP-guided antihypertensive therapy is particularly applicable to hypertensives with chronic kidney disease (CKD) for several reasons including the following: (1) difficult-to-control BP and high BP variability in the CKD setting; (2) poor accuracy of office BP in determining hypertension control status and detecting "white-coat" and "masked" hypertension; (3) poor value of routine office BP recordings in predicting the longitudinal progression of target-organ damage; and (4) superiority of home BP over office BP recordings in prognosticating the risk of incident end-stage renal disease or death. The concept of home BP-guided antihypertensive therapy is even more relevant for those on hemodialysis, given the high intradialytic and interdialytic BP variability and poor value of conventional peridialytic BP recordings in estimating the actual BP load recorded outside of dialysis with the use of home or ambulatory BP monitoring. Randomized trials comparing home BP-guided antihypertensive therapy versus usual care are warranted to prove the feasibility and effectiveness of this therapeutic approach and convince clinicians for using home BP monitoring as the standard of care when managing hypertension, particularly in people with CKD or end-stage renal disease.

DOI10.1016/j.jash.2018.02.002
Alternate JournalJ Am Soc Hypertens
PubMed ID29459219

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