Active clinical trials for "Hypertension"

The medical encounter can be overwhelming in term of the amount of information discussed, its technical nature, and the anxiety it can generate. Easy access to a secure audio recording from any internet enabled device is an available low cost technology that allows patients to "revisit the visit" either alone or sharing with caretakers and family. It has been introduced and tested outside the VA with evidence that it increases patient recall and understanding and may even improve physician performance. Little is known, however, about whether and to what extent these effects lead to better outcomes, such as improved treatment plan adherence and chronic disease self-management. This study is a randomized controlled trial designed ascertain whether easy access to audio recordings of the medical visit improves patients perception that they understand and can manage their own care, and leads to a variety of improved outcomes, such as better blood pressure and diabetes control, and fewer emergency department visits and hospitalizations.

Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension [CTEPH] is caused by pulmonary emboli that have enlarged in pulmonary arteries and have become organized into the vessel wall. Many patients with CTEPH are treated with balloon pulmonary angioplasty [BPA] which mechanically opens the narrow pulmonary arteries. It is unclear how much downstream functional pulmonary capillary surface area [FCSA] is recovered during BPA. We plan to measure FCSAIn CTEPH patients, before and after a session of BPA.

The aim of this study is to compare standard education with VR augmented education in patients with arterial hypertension

This study aims to examine the feasibility and effectiveness of written behavioural persuasion techniques intervention to encourage treatment initiation and follow-up for hypertension management among the untreated hypertension population of the SEACO cohort.

Acupuncture therapy will be provided to reduce blood pressure in hypertensive patients. The mild to moderate hypertensive patients will not be on hypertensive medications. The course last for 8 weeks and the frequency is once a week.

The overall objective of this research entity is to reveal the holistic health impact of oats in metabolically challenged individuals in a 6-week intervention, compared to that of rice. This is achieved by investigation of the plasma lipids, plasma antioxidant status, fecal microbiota and fecal bile acids. Additionally the effect of the 6-week diet on posptprandial glycemia and postprandial satiety and vitality are investigated.

The planned intervention, entitled, Supporting Self-Management of Health Behaviors to Optimize Health (SMART-HABITS for Health), aims to provide support for patients with chronic kidney disease, hypertension and diabetes by providing text messages delivered as motivational reminders and support to encourage blood pressure self-monitoring through goal setting, customized task prompts via text message and feedback, leveraging social connections, and use of a gamification design.

Most Americans consume excess dietary salt based on the recommendations set by the American Heart Association and Dietary Guidelines for Americans. High dietary salt impairs the ability of systemic blood vessels and the kidneys to control blood pressure, which contributes to excess salt consumption being associated with increased risk for chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in America. There is a critical need for strategies to counteract the effects of high dietary salt as consumption is likely not going to decrease. One promising option is ketones, metabolites that are produced in the liver during prolonged exercise and very low-calorie diets. While exercise and low-calorie diets are beneficial, not many people engage in these activities. However, limited evidence indicates that ketone supplements improve cardiovascular health in humans. Additionally published rodent data indicates that ketone supplements prevent high salt-induced increases in blood pressure, blood vessel dysfunction, and kidney injury. Our human pilot data also indicates that high dietary salt reduces intrinsic ketone production, but it is unclear whether ketone supplementation confers humans protection against high salt similar to rodents. Therefore, the investigators seek to conduct a short-term high dietary salt study to determine whether ketone supplementation prevents high dietary salt from eliciting increased blood pressure, blood vessel dysfunction, and kidney injury/impaired blood flow. The investigators will also measure inflammatory markers in blood samples and isolate immune cells that control inflammation. Lastly, the investigators will also measure blood ketone concentration and other circulating metabolites that may be altered by high salt, which could allow us to determine novel therapeutic targets to combat high salt.

Adherence to medications for high blood pressure is key to improving blood pressure control and reducing the impact of cardiovascular disease. This project will test the feasibility of a tailored telehealth intervention to help patients improve adherence to blood pressure medication.

The purpose of this research; The aim of this study is to examine the effects of self-management support given for hypertension patients on patients' adherence to treatment and disease, self-efficacy level, self-care management. This research is a randomized controlled and pretest-posttest applied design. The research will be carried out in Van Yüzüncü Yıl University Research Hospital with patients previously diagnosed with hypertension. The population of the research will consist of patients who have previously applied to the hospital where the research will be conducted and who have been diagnosed with hypertension who meet the research criteria. After the power analysis, it is planned to include 150 hypertension patients in the sample of the study. All patients in the intervention and control groups who meet the inclusion criteria will be verbally informed about the purpose of the study and the method of application, and their consent will be obtained. The pretest forms required for the research will be filled in by face-to-face interview method for all patients. In the study, the number of individuals in the randomization group will be determined by using the computer program, provided that they are equal in number. All materials prepared for self-management support will be delivered to the patients in the intervention group and they will be taught how to use them by the demonstration method. Patients will be asked to do the same procedure and the process will continue until they ensure correct use. Participants will be informed that there is a phone number that they can call whenever they want, when there are subjects that are not understood or that need to be repeated. Patients will be called three times a week and necessary checks will be made on blood pressure monitoring, nutrition, weight control, etc. In this way, patients in the intervention group will be followed remotely by tele-nursing for 3 months, their questions will be answered when they encounter problems, and guidance will be given in case of emergency. No intervention will be made in the control group. Necessary forms will be re-administered to all patients in both groups after 3 months as a post-test. At the end of the research, a comparison of the intervention and control groups will be made.