Virtual Hypertension Clinic

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Hypertension

In brief

This is a prospective, randomized controlled trial designed to determine whether blue tooth and telephone technology can be utilized to successfully relaying home blood pressure information electronically to healthcare providers so that timely and more frequent treatment interventions can be instituted to optimize and reach goal blood pressure level for an individual as compared to usual care. The primary study outcomes are improvement in systolic, diastolic, and blood pressure control and time to control blood pressure. Secondary outcomes are proportion of patients controlled to blood pressure goal at the end of the study, adherence to blood pressure monitoring and utilization of VHC model. If this is successful and cost-effective such technology and interventions could be utilized on large scale to improve the care and proportion of hypertensive patients achieving goal blood pressure in the United States.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01167920

Run by

The Cleveland Clinic

People needed

74

Starts

2009-11-01

Expected to finish

2014-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-10-28

Who can join

Age: 25 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients aged 25-65 years with essential hypertension
• Poorly controlled Hypertension (Systolic BP 140-199 Diastolic BP 90-110 mmHg

You may not qualify if…

• Patient on 4 or more antihypertensive medications
• History of non compliance with medications
• If extra-large cuff cannot fit the arm
• Patient with estimated glomerular filtration of less than 30 ml/min in the past two years)
• Patients with acute glomerulonephritis
• Patient with secondary hypertension
• Patient with severe congestive heart failure (New York Heart Association Functional Classification Class III AND IV)
• Patient with cirrhosis
• Patients with terminal diseases like cancers (other than non-melanoma skin cancers)
• Excessive alcohol intake (> 7 servings/week)
• Sensitivity or contra-indications to the use of 2 or more classes of antihypertensive medications
• Women who are pregnant (self reported) or lactating
• Women on oral contraceptive pills

Where it is running

• Cleveland Clinic Foundation — Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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