Why Hypertension Trials Are No Longer Just About Blood Pressure
Francheska Capistrano
Are you still recruiting for “hypertension”… or for the full cardiometabolic reality your protocol actually requires? Hypertension used to be treated (and recruited) as a single-variable disease: elevated blood pressure. That model no longer reflects clinical reality. Today’s hypertension patient is increasingly part of a broader cardiometabolic profile: obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular risk factors are deeply interconnected. Emerging research continues to show th