Active clinical trials for "Hypertension"

Prospective, single-arm, multicenter First in Human study to characterize the impact of pulmonary artery denervation on the quality of life in Heart Failure Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension

The objective of this clinical study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety by comparing BR1017A+BR1017B treatment group to BR1017A treatment group and BR1017B treatment group respectively at Week 8 in essential hypertension patients with primary hypercholesterolemia

The primary objective of the study is to determine the effect of seralutinib on improving exercise capacity in subjects with WHO Group 1 PAH who are FC II or III. The secondary objective for this trial is to determine time to clinical worsening.

Study name: Intensive management of blood pressure and cholesterol in elderly Chinese with hypertension and atrial fibrillation (IMPRESSION) Medicine: amlodipine/atorvastatin (5/10mg tablet); amlodipine/atorvastatin (5/20mg tablet); allisartan (240mg/tablet). Rationale: controlling blood pressure and cholesterol are both effective means to reduce cardiovascular risks, however, it is still unknown whether high cardiovascular risk patients with atrial fibrillation would benefit from intensive management of blood pressure and cholesterol. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of intensive management of blood pressure and cholesterol. Study design: This study is a multi-center, randomized and controlled clinical trial with four equally sized treatment groups: amlodipine/atorvastatin (5/10mg tablet); amlodipine/atorvastatin (5/20mg tablet); amlodipine/atorvastatin (5/10mg tablet)+allisartan (240mg/tablet); amlodipine/atorvastatin (5/20mg tablet)+allisartan (240mg/tablet). Study population: Men and Women aged over 65 years (n=1200) meeting the inclusion/exclusion criteria. Randomization and treatment: After stratification by centers, eligible patients will be randomly divided into four groups, taking amlodipine/atorvastatin (5/10mg tablet) once a day or amlodipine/atorvastatin (5/20mg tablet) once a day or amlodipine/atorvastatin (5/10mg tablet)+allisartan (240mg/tablet) once a day or amlodipine/atorvastatin (5/20mg tablet)+allisartan (240mg/tablet) once a day. Follow up: 3 years. Sample size: a total of 1200 patients should be enrolled in the combination. Timeline: After obtaining the approval of Ethics Committee of Ruijin Hospital in September 2019, recruitment will start. Patients enrollment will be performed between November 2019 to November 2020. All patients should be followed up before December 2023.

Resistant hypertension is defined as blood pressure that remains above goal despite concurrent use of three antihypertensive agents of different classes including diuretics. Patients with resistant hypertension has at least 1.5-fold higher cardiovascular risk than those with non-resistant hypertension. Therefore, controlling blood pressure is crucial in patients with resistant hypertension. It has been unclear which antihypertensive agent should be added in patients who cannot reach target blood pressure despite use of three antihypertensive agents. There have been three randomized clinical trials that proved the efficacy of spironolactone in resistant hypertension, but they were small sized, comparison study to placebo. Recently published PATHWAY-2 study which compared the efficacy of spironolactone with placebo, doxazosin, and bisoprolol showed superiority of spironolactone in blood pressure lowering in patients with resistant hypertension. Thus, revised ACC/AHA and ESC/ESH guideline for arterial hypertension recommended spironolactone as the fourth agent for resistant hypertension. However, in real world, adherence to spironolactone may not be adequate because of adverse effect such as gynecomastia, hyperkalemia, and so on. Recently, sub-study of PATHWAY-2 revealed that amiloride changes systolic blood pressure by -22.2 mmHg (95% CI, -24.7 to -19.7) which is comparable with the effect of spironolactone (-21.8 mmHg; 95% CI, -24.2 to -19.3). However, it was not randomized clinical trial to compare the effect between spironolactone and amiloride in patients with resistant hypertension. This study aims to compare the effect of spironolactone and amiloride on home blood pressure in resistant hypertensive patients and to compare the rate of target blood pressure achievement between spironolactone and amiloride in resistant hypertensive patients.

No studies have investigated the chronic effects of team sports on 24 h ambulatory blood pressure and have assessed the effects of a beach tennis intervention in cardiovascular profile and physical fitness. Based on that, the investigators designed this parallel randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effect of beach tennis training on 24 h ambulatory blood pressure and different physical fitness parameters in individuals with hypertension. The difference between the intervention arms in mean change from baseline in 24 h, daytime and nighttime systolic and diastolic ambulatory blood pressure at 12-weeks is the primary outcome; secondary outcomes are the difference between mean change in office blood pressure as well as cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength and power. The investigators anticipate that 12 weeks of beach tennis training will reduce blood pressure when compared to a non-exercising control group. Additionally, our recreational beach tennis intervention will improve all physical fitness components in comparison to the baseline values.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a regimen of high-dose immunoablative therapy will demonstrate safety that is consistent or improved with other published regimens in SSc patients, while maintaining a treatment effect.

It is estimated that over 25% of the world's population had hypertension in the year 2000 and that this proportion will reach 30% in the year 2025. With the introduction of the 2017 Guideline for High Blood Pressure in Adults from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines, the definition of hypertension became broader and as a result the prevalence is expected to further increase. On the other hand, it is estimated that around 10% of the world's population is affected by chronic kidney disease (CKD) with hypertension being both cause and complication of CKD. It is obvious that hypertension and CKD are interconnected and are both major risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Hypertension results in increased CVD risk both directly, as an independent factor, and indirectly via its negative impact on renal function. In fact, the deterioration of the renal function is proportional to the degree of hypertension. On the other hand, the more advanced the CKD is, the more challenging the management of hypertension becomes, as patients with CKD present altered patterns of blood pressure (BP) during the day and, additionally, the prevalence of white coat and masked hypertension is significantly higher in this group of patients. To date, hypertensive patients are treated according to the BP recordings that are obtained in the office (OBP) during routine patient visits, which leads to inaccurate estimates of the true burden of hypertension and also affects the efficacy of the therapeutic intervention. It has been suggested that self measured BP (HBP) is a more accurate estimate of the patients' daytime BP compared to the conventional office BP measurements. This has been already confirmed in studies regarding the general population and it has been suggested that the same applies to the patients with CKD. This study aims to check the validity of this hypothesis by comparing the effect of the HBP - guided management versus the conventional OBP - guided management on the 24 hour ambulatory BP monitoring of patients with uncontrolled hypertension and CKD stage 3 and 4.

This randomized-controlled pilot study will examine the implementation of a cardiovascular health intervention on postpartum mothers and infants. The investigators will adapt a cardiovascular health intervention into an evidence-based home visiting program, Family Check-Up to create Family Check-Up Heart. Through a Type 1 hybrid effectiveness implementation design, the pilot study will test the feasibility and effectiveness of Family Check-Up Heart (Family Check-Up Heart, n=100; Family Check-Up, n=50). The investigators hypothesize that Family Check-Up Heart will show comparable levels of engagement and acceptability as Family Check-Up alone, and mothers receiving Family Check-Up Heart will have greater improvements in cardiovascular health at 6 months postpartum compared to Family Check-Up alone.

This is a randomized clinical trial intended to identify the optimal strategy of blood pressure management in rural South Africa using Community Health Workers (CHWs) in conjunction with in-home BP monitoring among adults.