A Comparison of Telemedical and Conventional Antihypertensive Treatment

Regional Hospital Holstebro

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Hypertension

Treatments: Device: Telemedical blood pressure monitoring

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00282334

MED.RES.2004.01.LBM

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to compare telemedical antihypertensive treatment based on home blood pressure monitoring and conventional antihypertensive treatment based on monitoring of blood pressure in the doctor's office.

We want to test the hypotheses that telemedical treatment is more effective in lowering blood pressure, provide better quality of life and is more cost-effective.

Enrollment: 236 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age 20 - 80 years
• office blood pressure > 150/95 mmHg or systolic blood pressure >150 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure < 90 mmHg

Exclusion criteria

• not able to perform home blood pressure measurements
• low compliance
• abuse of alcohol/ medicine
• unwillingness to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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236 participants in 2 patient groups

Home blood pressure telemonitoring

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Telemedical blood pressure monitoring

Conventional blood pressure monitoring

No Intervention group