Gut bacteria may undermine blood pressure drugs, study finds

Approximately 20% of hypertensive patients experience treatment-resistant hypertension, limiting their ability to control a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke.

For the roughly one in five Americans with hypertension whose medications fail them despite faithful adherence, science has long offered silence where answers were needed. Researchers at the University of Toledo have now turned toward an unlikely suspect — the microbial communities living within us — and found that a common gut bacterium called Coprococcus may be quietly dismantling blood pressure drugs before the body can use them. This discovery, still early and rooted in animal studies, opens a new chapter in understanding how the invisible ecosystems we carry shape the medicines we depend

Gut bacteria may undermine blood pressure drugs, study finds

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