High blood pressure is the world’s most common cause of death, estimated to affect at 4 out of 10 Romanian adults [1-3]. Despite the availability of a wide range of antihyper-tensive drugs, about 70% of treatment hypertensive pa-tients fail to achieve the blood pressure target of less than 140/90 mmHg recommended by the current guidelines [4,5]. In Romania, less than one quarter of treated hypertensive adults have a controlled blood pressure (less than 140/90 mmHg) [1-3,6,7]. [...]