Volume 48 Issue 2, February 2025

This meta-analysis considered 117 studies with 68677 participants eligible. The DHIs for telemedicine/telehealth reduced office BP compared with usual care, regardless of intervention duration, intervention delivery mode, facility type, and cohort type. Additionally, the DHIs reduced the risk of uncontrolled BP compared with usual care, regardless of intervention duration, intervention delivery mode, and facility type. BP: blood pressure; DHI: digital health intervention; MD: mean difference; RR: risk ratio; SBP: systolic blood pressure.

A subgroup analysis of the EXCITE-HT study according to basal antihypertensive agent demonstrated the non-inferiority of esaxerenone to trichlormethiazide in lowering morning home BP regardless irrespective of the basal antihypertensive agent. Esaxerenone with a CCB showed superiority to trichlormethiazide in lowering SBP, without any new safety concerns.

The exaggerated peak nighttime home systolic blood pressure (HSBP) determined from six or more measurements as a novel risk factor for stroke, independent of conventional office and home blood pressure (BP) values.

The liver fibrosis-4 index as a diagnostic indicator of the absence of atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing coronary computed tomography angiography

This study showed that a 12-week IHG training at 15% of MVC significantly lowered morning HSBP by about 4.0 mmHg in treated Japanese hypertensive patients. Continuous low-intensity IHG training may provide a stable hypotensive effect in high blood pressure to grade 1 hypertensive population.

These authors contributed equally to this work:

We assessed the association between BMI, handgrip strength, and risk of all-cause mortality to evaluate the validity of weight reduction in older patients with hypertension.