The effect of renal denervation on arterial stiffness, central blood pressure and heart rate variability in treatment resistant essential hypertension: a substudy of a randomized sham-controlled double-blinded trial (the ReSET trial).
Christian Daugaard PetersOle Norling MathiassenHenrik VaseJesper Bech NørgaardKent Lodberg ChristensenAnne Pauline SchroederHans Joachim von Hofe RickersUlla Kampmann OpstrupPer Løgstrup PoulsenSten LangfeldtGratien AndersenKlavs Würgler HansenHans Erik BøtkerMorten EngholmJannik Buus BertelsenErling Bjerregaard PedersenAnne KaltoftNiels Henrik BuusPublished in: Blood pressure (2017)
In a sham-controlled setting, there were no significant effects of RDN on arterial stiffness, C-BP and HRV. Thus, the idea of BP-independent effects of RDN on large arteries and cardiac autonomic activity is not supported.