Saves the questions and what to expect into your notes, next to the visit they belong to.
Keep this study
Lead
Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France
With
Medtronic
Age
18–90
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
Patients between 18-90 years of age in both sexes, diagnosed with resistant hypertension.
\- Resistance Hypertension defined as -
Blood pressure at consultation \> 140 and/or 90 mmHg and/or 24h-ABPM (Ambulatory Blood Pressure Assessment) and/or in Home blood pressure measurement (HBPM) \> 130 and/or 80 mmHg despite taking three or more different classes of antihypertensive drugs at optimal doses, including a diuretic, on the day of screening irrespective of the BP on the day of the visit.
Any office BP, ABPM or HBPM values in patients taking four or more different classes of antihypertensive drugs at optimal doses, including a diuretic.
Patients scheduled for arterial stiffness assessment as a part of routine treatment.
Patients eligible or affiliated with a social security scheme.
Patients who provide written informed consent for participation.
You may not be if
\- Inability to express consent to the study
Persons subject to a judicial safeguard measure, under guardianship or curatorship.
Patients with skin lesions (severe eczema, wounds, etc.) on the chest or neck that do not allow the application of the protective skin film on the area of interest; Allergies to the adhesive film.
Subjects not affiliated with social security or an equivalent scheme.
Linguistic incapacity or psychic refusal to read the information.
Diseases carrying out a life -expectancy \<1 year according to clinical judgment
Pregnant women (because of physiological hemodynamic changes in BP and stiffness during pregnancy)
Arrhythmias: current AC/FA, high degree BAV.
Persons subject to a period of exclusion for another research
