There may soon be a new approach to treat hard-to-control high blood pressure

(CNN) — Doctors may soon have a new way to treat high blood pressure, even among people for whom medicines haven’t worked well in the past.

Baxdrostat, an experimental medicine made by AstraZeneca, showed promise in treating people with uncontrolled or resistant high blood pressure in a recent trial. If the medicine gets approved by regulatory authorities, it will be one of the first new approaches to treating high blood pressure in decades, researchers say.

Scientists presented the trial results Saturday at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2025 in Madrid and simultaneously published them in the New England Journal of Medicine.

For the study, researchers enrolled 800 adults who still had high blood pressure after taking two or more medications for at least four weeks. To qua