Epidemiology of Hypertensive Emergency

Completed

Conditions studied: Cardiovascular Diseases, Heart Diseases, Hypertension

In brief

To test the hypotheses that hypertensive emergency was associated with non-compliance with antihypertensive medication, low level of contact with the medical care system, and alcohol abuse and cigarette smoking. Also, to describe the clinical characteristics of patients hospitalized with hypertensive emergency including morbidity, mortality, and cost, and the extent to which hypertensive emergency occured among previously diagnosed and treated hypertensives.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00005240

Run by

Columbia University

People needed

210

Starts

1989-10-01

Expected to finish

1992-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-12-24

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients admitted in the emergency room and for the medical and surgical services at the Presbyterian Hospital and Harlem Hospital Center in New York City
• patients with incidents of hypertensive emergency or hypertensive urgency
• hypertensive patients with other acute conditions who were admitted to the hospital or were treated in the emergency room and released

You may not qualify if…

• Under 21 years of age
• Pregnancy

Where it is running

• Columbia University — New York, New York, United States

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