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Review
. 2024 Jun 1;30(1):15.
doi: 10.1186/s40885-024-00271-y.

Blood pressure and heart failure: focused on treatment

Kyeong-Hyeon Chun  1 , Seok-Min Kang  2
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Review

Blood pressure and heart failure: focused on treatment

Kyeong-Hyeon Chun et al. Clin Hypertens. .

Abstract

Heart failure (HF) remains a significant global health burden, and hypertension is known to be the primary contributor to its development. Although aggressive hypertension treatment can prevent heart changes in at-risk patients, determining the optimal blood pressure (BP) targets in cases diagnosed with HF is challenging owing to insufficient evidence. Notably, hypertension is more strongly associated with HF with preserved ejection fraction than with HF with reduced ejection fraction. Patients with acute hypertensive HF exhibit sudden symptoms of acute HF, especially those manifested with severely high BP; however, no specific vasodilator therapy has proven beneficial for this type of acute HF. Since the majority of medications used to treat HF contribute to lowering BP, and BP remains one of the most important hemodynamic markers, targeted BP management is very concerned in treatment strategies. However, no concrete guidelines exist, prompting a trend towards optimizing therapies to within tolerable ranges, rather than setting explicit BP goals. This review discusses the connection between BP and HF, explores its pathophysiology through clinical studies, and addresses its clinical significance and treatment targets.

Keywords: Blood pressure; Heart failure; Hypertension.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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A conceptual safety margin (“green zone”) for blood pressure (BP) in each heart failure group. Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) has a wide safety margin for BP, with a lower BP being at higher risk. Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) has a relatively narrow safety margin for BP, with both higher and lower BP being at higher risk
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