Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Registration Study in the Elderly(HOME Study)

Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Provincial Academy of Medical Sciences)

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Blood Pressure

Treatments

Other: no intervention

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04212468

2018300H(R1)

Details and patient eligibility

About

China is entering an aging society. As the number of elderly population continues to increase, the elderly are facing many social problems that deserve the attention of all sectors of society. Hypertension is one of the common diseases in the elderly population. Hypertension is the most common chronic diseases and a most important risk factor for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and also a substantial public health problem. Home blood pressure monitoring is simple, not only can find hypertension, but also can guide the treatment of patients with hypertension. The purpose of the study is to investigate the association between home blood pressure and adverse outcomes in community elderly population.

Full description

Study population includes subjects who living in community, of any race or ethnicity, 65 or older years of age, and have provided written informed consent to provide home blood pressure monitoring at one or more study visits.

Physical examination, questionnaire survey and biological sample collection will be conducted at baseline and the incidence of a composite of major adverse cardiovascular events will be investigated during follow-up.

Enrollment

6,000 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

65+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

•≥65 years old