Reliable Hypertension Diagnosis Based on 24 ABPM

Arterial Hypertension Clinical Trial

Official title:

How to Reliably Diagnose Arterial Hypertension: Lessons From 24h Blood Pressure Monitoring.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03674918
• Other study ID #: 24 ABPM001
• Status: Completed
• Start date: July 1, 2015
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: September 2018
• Source: Hasselt University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

24 h blood pressure monitoring can help to define which is the optimal timing and frequency of measurements

Description:

Hypertension is a common condition in modern society. As blood pressure fluctuates with time, a single blood pressure measurement is useless to diagnose hypertension. Nevertheless, a questionable not well-defined number of measurements still is often used for this purpose. Diagnosis and therapeutic control of hypertension are therefore suboptimal. This study's objective is to determine the number and timing of measurements needed to give a trustworthy approximation of an individual's average blood pressure. Therefore, 24 h ambulatory blood pressure measurements were retrospectively analyzed.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 408
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: July 1, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 70 per cent of valid measurements

Exclusion Criteria:

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Arterial Hypertension
• Hypertension

Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
• 24 h ambulatory blood pressure measurements
24 h ambulatory blood pressure measurements : an ambulatory 24 h blood pressure device that automatically measures blood pressure every 15 minutes is given to the patient for 24 h

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Belgium	Jessa Ziekenhuis	Hasselt

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hasselt University	Jessa Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Belgium, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Timing of measurement	9:00-13:00 - 13:00-17:00 - 17:00 - 21:00: there intervals were analyzed to assess the predictive value of each interval compared with the overall daytime diagnosis of hypertension.	day 1
Secondary	The correct number of measurements	Within the intervals, the correct number of measurements needed to diagnose hypertension will be evaluated.	day 1