High Blood Pressure Cured With This Strange New Treatment

Doctors call some cases of high blood pressure drug resistant as they respond to no treatment methods invented up to now.

There may, however, be great hope for you even if drugs don’t work.

Because research from the Mayo Clinic has put to a test a new drug-free sound-treatment option for high blood pressure that may change everything.

High blood pressure is stimulated by the sympathetic nervous system. Sympathetic nerves carry messages from your brain and spinal cord to your kidneys that stimulate them to produce stress hormones like adrenaline (epinephrine) and norepinephrine. These hormones then cause high blood pressure by narrowing your arteries and increasing your heart rate.

This is not an example of your body gone mad; it is, in fact, the mechanism that enables you to fight or flee when you are being chased or attacked. Or, simply standing up or running. Your blood pressure needs to be able to fluctuate throughout the day.

However, for many reasons, 21st-century life tends to coincide with overactive sympathetic nervous systems and consequently with unnecessarily high blood pressure.

Our diets are unhealthy, our stress levels are too high, and so on.

Doctors then prescribe drugs that thin your blood, promote the excretion of excess water, and widen your arteries, all to limit the effects of these stress hormones or to block their entry into your blood vessels. These drugs normally have side effects and are ridiculously expensive.

But what if doctors could find a way to limit the secretion of the stress hormones, rather than to continue fiddling with their effects?

It seems like such a treatment may now be in the cards. It is called renal denervation, and involves a catheter that is placed inside your renal artery. This catheter applies ultrasound energy to your renal artery to inhibit the nerves that pass on the message to secrete truckloads of stress hormones into your bloodstream. The ultrasound damages the nerves just enough so they cannot pass on this message.

So does it work?

At this stage many trials are still being conducted, but the results are mildly promising. Up to now, three large trials have been performed around the world, called Symplicity HTN-1, Symplicity HTN-2, and Symplicity HTN-3. The first two trials yielded positive results.

In Symplicity HTN-1, 45 patients with drug-resistant hypertension were placed on the treatment, and a strong majority of them experienced a significant drop in blood pressure after a month. This drop was sustained after 12 months and the treatment proved safe.

Symplicity HTN-2 recruited 106 hypertensive patients, divided them into an ultrasound and a drug treatment group, and compared them after six months. Once again, the ultrasound proved to lower blood pressure effectively. Even better, it worked much better than the drugs.

The Mayo Clinic then recruited 535 patients with drug-resistant hypertension for Symplicity HTN-3. To add to the study’s credibility, the researchers devised ways in which the patients and doctors measuring their blood pressure would be unaware of whether they received the real treatment or a placebo.

This is highly valued in scientific studies to prevent the participants and the researchers from inadvertently influencing the results by, for example, their positive or negative expectations. Consequently, Symplicity HTN-3 was better designed than the previous two.

Unfortunately, it found almost no difference between the blood pressure of those given the real treatment and those given the fake one.

Researchers aren’t giving up here, however. A detailed analysis of Symplicity HTN-3, published in Circulation Research in 2014, concluded that all the operators may not have been sufficiently skilled to provide the ultrasound properly, and that this may have skewed the results.

Accordingly, the trials continue.

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