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Long-acting nifedipine in the management of essential hypertension: a review for cardiologists

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Hazra, Prakash Kumar·2024·American Journal of Cardiovascular Disease
DOI 10.62347/rpmz6407PMC PMC11744219
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Calcium channel antagonists, specifically long-acting nifedipine formulations, play a crucial role in treating hypertension and angina. Originally used for angina, nifedipine has been widely employed as an antihypertensive medication for over 40 years. It offers rapid action and oral bioavailability with minimal maternal or fetal side effects, making it suitable for treating hypertensive crises during pregnancy. However, it can cause a sudden drop in blood pressure and tachycardia. Long-acting formulations, such as gastrointestinal therapeutic systems, gradually release nifedipine over 24 hours, mitigating these issues. This review aims to assess the clinical efficacy and safety of long-acting nifedipine formulations in managing essential hypertension, with a focus on improving blood pressure control and addressing challenges in uncontrolled and resistant hypertension. Furthermore, long-acting nifedipine provides therapeutic advantages beyond hypertension management, showing efficacy in treating comorbid conditions such as chronic kidney disease and diabetes. Global studies support its efficacy, suggesting that a shift toward the use of long-acting nifedipine can help address the global hypertension problem and enhance the quality of life for hypertensive patients.

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Authors
Hazra, P. K.
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Hazra, Prakash Kumar
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American Journal of Cardiovascular Disease
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e-Century Publishing Corporation
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2024
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14
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6
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396-413
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2160-200X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.62347/rpmz6407
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PMC11744219
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Keywords
essential hypertension, calcium channel blockers, blood pressure control, resistant hypertension, hypertension in pregnancy, gastrointestinal therapeutic system, tachycardia, chronic kidney disease, diabetes mellitus, antihypertensive efficacy and safety

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

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How to cite

Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.

This page
CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Long-acting nifedipine in the management of essential hypertension: a review for cardiologists. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.62347/rpmz6407
The paper
Hazra, P. K. (2024). Long-acting nifedipine in the management of essential hypertension: a review for cardiologists. American Journal of Cardiovascular Disease. https://doi.org/10.62347/rpmz6407