Active clinical trials for "Hypertension"

Paradoxical fetal and maternal results of studies have led to inconsistent use of antihypertensive drugs or no treatment at all in mild to moderate gestational hypertension in the Netherlands. However, none of the studies have taken the individual maternal circulatory state or the contemplated blood pressure response into account. Hypertension may be accompanied by high (hyperdynamic vasodilated profile), normal (normodynamic profile) of low (hypodynamic vasoconstrictive profile) cardiac output, and preeclampsia is not restricted to one circulatory profile. Therefore antihypertensive drugs should be viewed upon as correctors of the hemodynamic state rather than solely reducers of blood pressure. Without taking the maternal hemodynamic profile and condition into account, generic antihypertensive treatment can be expected to result in disappointing, inadequate and paradoxical results. The investigators hypothesize that in mild to moderate hypertension, personalized hemodynamically guided antihypertensive therapy (with target systolic and diastolic blood pressure <130/80mmHg), prevents the progression to severe hypertension and/or preeclampsia compared to no treatment, without the alleged side-effects.

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) involves the narrowing of blood vessels connected to and within the lungs. Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a focal adhesion-associated protein kinase involved in cellular adhesion and spreading processes which leads to stiffening and thickening of blood vessels in lungs. This further increases the blood pressure within the lungs and impairs their blood flow. This study aims to demonstrate biodistribution of FAK inhibitor, GSK2256098, in cardiopulmonary sites i.e. heart and lung tissues. The uptake of 11C-radiolabelled GSK2256098 within the lung and / or heart of healthy subjects and idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (iPAH) patients will be assessed using Positron Emission Tomography (PET). Based on study results the decision as to whether a follow-on phase 2 trial should be initiated to investigate the therapeutic utility of GSK2256098 in iPAH will be decided. Sufficient number of subjects will be screened (up to 30 days prior to scan) to enrol 12 healthy subjects and 12 PAH patients in the study. Enrolled subjects will receive a microdose of [11C]-GSK2256098 on a scanning day which will be followed by the follow-up visit (2-4 weeks post-last dose).

Prehypertension is a predisposing condition for morbidity inhypertension and cardiovascular diseases. Health education via electronic pathways such as mobile text messaging or virtual communities may provide more availability and adherence than printed media. Regarding lower costs of such electronic resources and continuity of interventions through these ways, assessing their effectiveness compared to a printed material may help health educators to choose proper methods for improve their educational attempts. Therefore, the current study aims to compare different tools for health education about healthy lifestyle in people with prehypertension. For this, educational interventions with similar content among 3 groups of people will be conducted (i.e., first group via mobile text messaging, second group using virtual communities, and third group by brochures as a printed media). A control group also will be considered without any intervention. Several phases are considered in the study. In phase 1 using health centers located in Qazvin city, people would be invited to a free screening program of prehypertension. Then, an eligible sample will be divided in three groups using a random allocation process (each one including 100-150 people with prehypertension). The blood pressure and health promotion lifestyle profile II (HPLP II) will be measured before intervention. A standard educational content using approaches of lifestyle promotion defined in HPLP II would be available for intervention groups during a time period of 1 month concurrently. At final phase, one month after termination of intervention blood pressure as primary outcome and lifestyle changes along with self-efficacy for lifestyle modification as secondary outcomes will be measured. This study may suggest effective ways for health education which is applicable by health care professionals to promote health status among peopleat risk of hypertension.

The purpose of this cluster randomized controlled trial is to evaluate whether a novel tele-pharmacist-based intervention for patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and diabetes improves medication adherence, disease control, and patients' understanding of their treatment.

To assess the effectiveness of the use of a patient's genes to predict which hypertension therapy is successful

Government has popularized potatoes as a major staple food in China. Potato, a potassium-rich food with high glycemic responses after consumption, exhibits unclear effects on hypertension. In this study, the investigators aimed to examine the association between potato consumption and hypertension risk among Chinese people.

Arterial hypertension (AH) is an important clinical social and economic problem, related to the increased cardiovascular risk. AH is associated with cardiovascular hemodynamic alterations, including left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVddf). In consequence of increased blood pressure, the effectiveness of LV as a blood pump decreases and the symptoms of heart failure (HF) may occur. Thus, the identification of noninvasive markers related with the progression from the asymptomatic AH to LVddf/HFpEF would be beneficial. Another issue is that the diagnostic difficulties in patients with LVddf and HFpEF stem from the limited possibility to assess the hemodynamic response to exercise. Thus, there is a need for more detailed methods of cardiovascular monitoring while exercise testing. We hypothesize that some new noninvasive hemodynamic parameters, characterizing left ventricular (LV) function and arterial stiffness, may help to predict the risk of cardiovascular events and future occurrence of LVddf/HFpEF. Moreover, we assume that cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET), completed with new methods of noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring (impedance cardiography and applanation tonometry), would provide additional value in the assessment of the cardiovascular hemodynamic response to exercise. The study is intended to verify these hypothesis.

The main objective of this study is to record, in routine clinical practice, patients' adherence to treatment with Perindopril/Indapamide/Amlodipine fixed dose combination, during 4 months treatment.

One of the most powerful predictors of stroke is hypertension, with estimates of approximately 33% of adults in the United States experiencing this condition. Hypertension is significantly more prevalent in African Americans compared to European Americans. Importantly, hypertension is a modifiable stroke risk factor. This proposal will use a community-based participatory research approach to perform a randomized trial of a mobile phone text-messaging intervention to reduce high blood pressure in an urban African American community in Flint, Michigan.

The current data on the incidence of pulmonary hypertension (PH) are very variable, depending on the different studies designs. There are no data on the prognostic of PH in patients with asymptomatic pulmonary thromboembolisms (PT), neither paucisymptomatic PH, in which without a prospective follow-up would be underdiagnosed. We thought that the prognosis of both clinical forms (PT with or without symptoms) would be similar. The objective of this study is know the real incidence of pulmonary hypertension (PH) post symptomatic and asymptomatic pulmonary thromboembolic (PT).