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Decade in review—hypertension

The past decade in hypertension—facts, hopes, and hypes

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Hypertension research in the past decade has been a mixture of hope and hype. In the absence of new drug developments, clinical intervention procedures such as renal nerve ablation and baroreflex activation therapy have dominated the research, but the results have not yet fulfilled the great expectations.

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Figure 1: The hits and misses in the development of blood-pressure lowering therapies during the past decade.

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Unger, T. The past decade in hypertension—facts, hopes, and hypes. Nat Rev Cardiol 11, 633–635 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrcardio.2014.131

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