Active clinical trials for "Hypertension"

Acute blood pressure elevation is a frequent problem in neurocritical patients. Its effective management is challenging and must avoid significant decreases of blood pressure leading to lower cerebral perfusion pressure worsening ischemia and elevations probably associated with bleeding, rebleeding or hematoma expansion associated with poor prognosis

Pulmonary hypertension may develop in premature newborn infants due to impaired lung development. The diagnosis of this disease can actually be made with interventional methods. In this study, we evaluated the importance of echocardiographic examination and blood laboratory tests in diagnosing this disease.

24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is superior to office blood pressure (BP) for assessing cardiovascular risk. On the other hand, repeated cuff inflations during ABPM can cause discomfort and reduced quality of sleep. A high frequency of measurement during ABPM might result in erroneously high BP measurement, incorrect hypertension diagnoses, unnecessary treatment or just overtreatment with antihypertensive medication and potentially serious side effects. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the frequency of measurements during ABPM impacts the measured BP during ABPM. Patients will be recruited from the Clinic of Hypertension at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. The study will be conducted as a randomized controlled crossover study. Participants will undergo two 24-hour ABPMs: One with a low frequency of measurement, 1-time per hour during the day and 1-time per hour during the night, and one with a high frequency, 3-times/hour during the day, and 2-times/hour at night. The primary endpoint will be the difference in 24-hour mean systolic BP between the high- and low frequency measurement ABPM.

Although PARP inhibitors (PARPi) have proved effective in treating many cancers, few patients receiving PARPi may experience rare but serious (or not) adverse events such as hypertension whose data are scarce. The objective was to investigate reports of hypertension related to PARPi, including olaparib, rucaparib, niraparib, talazoparib, veliparib, pamiparib, and fluzoparib using the World Health Organization's (WHO) pharmacovigilance database: VigiBase.

This non-interventional, ambispective study was aimed at evaluating the effectiveness, safety, and tolerability of bisoprolol and perindopril SPC in previous myocardial infarction patients with HTN and CAD treated with the drug for 12 weeks in the daily clinical practice. SPC will be used according to the approved instruction for medical use of the medicine. This is a multi-centre, observational, incomparative, ambispective study, which will retrospectively and prospectively collect clinical variables and socio-demographic data from medical records of patients with HTN and previous MI initiated with bisoprolol/perindopril SPC in real life settings.

Briefly, a trained barbershop navigator will work with each barbershop to measure blood pressure on each adult customer who agrees, and to provide culturally-targeted education about high blood pressure and its consequences, and motivational interviewing-informed counseling about therapeutic lifestyle changes. For customers found to have high blood pressure, the navigator will also provide referral and navigation to a medical provider and, as appropriate, a local pharmacy.

With the opening up of the two-child policy , the composition of pregnant women in China has changed significantly . The proportion of high-risk pregnant women in the elderly has increased significantly , and the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes has also increased . Among them , gestational diabetes mellitus ( GDM ) is the most common complication during pregnancy . The incidence of GDM in China is as high as 18 % due to the economic growth , lifestyle changes and dietary habits . GDM not only threatens perinatal maternal and child health , but also increases the risk of offspring insulin resistance , obesity and metabolic diseases in adulthood . But it is still lack of experience on intervening and managing them effectively. Therefore , on the basis of previous studies , this study intends to explore the effects of intensive diet and exercise intervention by obstetricians and nutritionists on pregnancy weight gain , pregnancy outcome , glucose and lipid metabolism and postpartum weight retention under the mobile medical platform through a large sample cluster intervention test in the real world. In order to supervise and improve the compliance of the intervention subjects and realize the ultimate change of their behaviors, this study intends to use the APP software, the mobile medical technology, to monitor and evaluate diet , exercise and weight. Through the above research , it aims to improve the current management schemes of diet and weight during pregnancy , not only helps to optimize and improve the quality of perinatal health care , but also prevents the adult chronic diseases from the fetal period. This research has important theoretical and practical value .

High blood pressure affects many people in the United Kingdom. People with raised blood pressure (140-159/90-99 mmHg) are recommended to make changes in their lifestyle (e.g. smoking/alcohol/diet/exercise) and/or medication in order to reduce their blood pressure. Current knowledge suggests that a particular type of exercise - isometric exercise - can lower blood pressure. Isometric exercise involves holding a fixed body position for a short period of time. As most of the information about the benefits of this type of exercise comes from laboratory-based studies, researchers want to find out if it is possible for GP practices to offer NHS patients with clinically high blood pressure an isometric exercise plan to do at home and how it might affect their blood pressure over 6 months. They will also find out the experiences of those doing this type of exercise and whether it can be done consistently at home over time.

Hypertension became the leading risk factor of death globally as well as in Bangladesh. Uncontrolled hypertension is the key challenge for the success of a hypertension control programs. According to the last national STEPS Survey in Bangladesh, hypertension control rate is only 11%. World Health Organization promoted the HEARTS technical package for the hypertension control programs to improve the control scenario. National Heart Foundation of Bangladesh is implementing a hypertension control program in selected Upazilas (sub-districts) of Bangladesh in collaboration with Non-Communicable Disease Control (NCDC) Program of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and Resolve to Save Lives, USA. Proposed quasi experimental study will be conducted in collaboration with NCDC of DGHS, Resolve to Save Lives, USA and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore with an objective of to evaluate the impact of HEARTS package on the rate of hypertension control in primary health care centers in Bangladesh. In this study equal number of hypertensive adult patients will be recruited in Upazila Health Complexes of control and intervention groups with a hypothesis of, implementation of HEARTS technical package in primary health care centers can reduce the blood pressure significantly. After obtaining informed written consent, respondents' basic demographic information, history of antihypertensive medication intake and related comorbidities will be taken. Blood pressure measurements data will be recorded also. All of these data will be collected via a secured mobile application, Simple App. Collected data will be preserved in a secured cloud based database. After six months of enrolment, and end-line data will be collected at the community setup, preferably at the home of respondents, following standard techniques of BP measurement by experienced Field Research Assistants. During whole of the study procedure, every ethical right of the participants will be preserved with an utmost priority. De-identified data will be shared with the partner organizations for further scientific analysis. This study will generate robust evidence for use of HEARTS technical packages in low-and middle-income countries, like Bangladesh, especially at low-level health facilities and provide guidance for designing and implementation of other hypertension control programs.

The goal of this observational study is to evaluate the effects of a supervised aerobic exercise training program on weight loss, functional capacity, quality of life (QoL), and depression levels in patients with essential hypertension.