Electroacupuncture in hypertension-mediated organ damage: A hypothesis-generating framework of blood pressure-dependent and candidate blood pressure-independent mechanisms.

Contemporary hypertension management increasingly emphasizes hypertension-mediated organ damage (HMOD) rather than blood pressure (BP) targets alone. Electroacupuncture (EA) has been studied mainly as a non-pharmacological antihypertensive intervention, but whether its reported organ-level effects r