Heart Rate Variability in White Coat Hypertension and Essential Hypertension

Regional Hospital Holstebro

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy; Essential Hypertension; White Coat Hypertension

Treatments: Procedure: Monitoring of heart rate variability

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00286884

MED.RES.HOS.2003.01.LBM

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to investigate heart rate variability in patients with white coat hypertension and patients with essential hypertension.

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age 30-70 years
• office BP >150/95 mmHg and 24-h ambulatory BP =/>135/85 mmHg
• office BP >150/95 mmHg and 24-h ambulatory BP <135/85 mmHg
• office BP <150/95 mmHg and 24-h ambulatory BP <135/85 mmHg

Exclusion criteria

• Clinical signs of disease of the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, brain or endocrine organs
• neoplastic disease
• daily use of medicine
• alcohol abuse
• abnormal laboratory screening including blood-hemoglobin, blood-white cell count, plasma-creatinine, plasma-alanine-amino-transaminases, plasma-albumin, plasma-sodium, plasma-potassium, urinary glucose, urinary albumin; electrocardiogram
• pregnancy
• unwillingness to participate