In-Hospital Detection of Elevated Blood Pressure
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorAnnina Vischer
About this trial
The goal of this clinical trial is to analyse the prevalence of new or uncontrolled arterial hypertension (AHT) after hospital discharge of medical in-patients with elevated blood pressure (BP) values during hospitalisation.
The main questions it aims to answer are:
* Do elevated BP values during hospitalisation correspond to new or uncontrolled AHT after hospital discharge? * Is it safe to postpone adaption of antihypertensive treatment until after proper evaluation of AHT after hospital discharge?
Participants will either be treated according to their physicians' decision or antihypertensive treatment adaptions will be postponed until after hospital discharge.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Patient hospitalized on the internal medicine ward for non-cardiovascular causes, i.e. patients hospitalized for conditions, which are not acutely worsened by uncontrolled AHT
Asymptomatic elevated BP values (defined as 140-180 mmHg systolic and/or 90-110 mmHg diastolic) on at least 2 occasions
Ability to understand study procedures and to provide written informed consent
Disqualifiers
Cerebrovascular events
Acute coronary syndrome
Acute or decompensated heart failure
Any condition preventing ABPM
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Postponement of antihypertensive treatment
Treatment groups
800 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Annina Vischer
Lead sponsor
University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
Sponsor institution
Source ClinicalTrials.gov