Blood Pressure in the Emergency Department (PREBPED)

Karolinska Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension; Emergencies; Blood Pressure

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03954119

BPED1605

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a cohort study based on a large sample (> 600 000) of emergency department (ED) visits from two university hospital EDs. Information on incident disease after discharge from the ED will be collected through linkage to Swedish national in-patient register and cause of death register. The importance of blood pressure measured at the ED for incident atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease during long term follow up will be studied by Cox-regression analysis

Enrollment: 300,272 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Attending the Emergency departments (ED) at Karolinska University hospital in Solna or Huddinge during the specified time period
• Record of blood pressure measurement from the ED-visit

Exclusion Criteria: