Special Edition: Hypertension Part 2—Advanced Hypertension Management: Uncontrolled and Resistant Hypertension and the Importance of Aldosterone

Uncontrolled and resistant hypertension is more common than we think. In the second episode of this special three-part series, Dr. Neil Skolnik discusses management strategies, but also explores our new understanding of aldosterone and its stealth role in hypertension.

This series is supported with support from AstraZeneca.

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Presented by:

Neil Skolnik, MD, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Abington Jefferson Health

Payal Kohli, MD, Harvard-educated preventive cardiologist and the Founder and Medical Director of Cherry Creek Heart in Aurora Colorado, Associate Adjunct Professor in Cardiology at Johns Hopkins University, and Associate Adjunct Professor in Cardiology at Duke University

Selected references:

2025 AHA/ACC/AANP/AAPA/ABC/ACCP/ACPM/AGS/AMA/ASPC/NMA/PCNA/SGIM Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee. Hypertension 2025; 82(10)

Blood pressure lowering for prevention of cardiovascular disease and death: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet 2016;387:957

Efficacy and Safety of Baxdrostat in Uncontrolled and Resistant Hypertension. N Engl J Med 2025;393:1363-74. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2507109

Primary Aldosteronism: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2025, 00, 1–43 https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgaf284

A Randomized Trial of Intensive versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control. N Engl J Med 2015;373:2103-2116

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