Time to recognize continuous positive airway pressure as a blood pressure-lowering treatment in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea and resistant hypertension?

Martino F Pengo¹, Carolina Lombardi^{1

2}, Grzegorz Bilo^{1

2}, Gianfranco Parati^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS.
² Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

Editorial

Martino F Pengo et al. J Hypertens. 2021.

. 2021 Feb 1;39(2):234-235.

doi: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000002676.

Martino F Pengo¹, Carolina Lombardi^{1

2}, Grzegorz Bilo^{1

2}, Gianfranco Parati^{1

2}

¹ Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS.
² Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

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Comment on

The HIPARCO-2 study: long-term effect of continuous positive airway pressure on blood pressure in patients with resistant hypertension: a multicenter prospective study.
Navarro-Soriano C, Torres G, Barbé F, Sánchez-de-la-Torre M, Mañas P, Lloberes P, Cambriles TD, Somoza M, Masa JF, González M, Mañas E, de la Peña M, García-Río F, Montserrat JM, Muriel A, Oscullo G, García-Ortega A, Posadas T, Campos-Rodríguez F, Martínez-García MÁ; on behalf the Spanish Sleep Network. Navarro-Soriano C, et al. J Hypertens. 2021 Feb 1;39(2):302-309. doi: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000002664. J Hypertens. 2021. PMID: 33239552

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