Pharmacological and Nonpharmacological Factors That Contribute Blood Pressure Control

Maltepe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension,Essential

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05513430

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Details and patient eligibility

About

Study is an observational study among hypertensive patients

Full description

Objective: To investigate drug adherence and lifestyle behaviors affecting the blood pressure (BP) control among hypertensive patients that have uncontrolled and controlled BP.

Enrollment: 176 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 74 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Patient inclusion criteria were as follows:

• aged between 38 and 74 years,
• hypertension diagnosis history of at least 6 months
• use of at least one antihypertensive medication.

Exclusion Criteria:

-not willing to join the clinical trial

Trial design

176 participants in 2 patient groups

controlled hypertension

Description:

Controlled hypertension was defined as systolic blood pressure (SBP) ≤139 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure (DBP)≤89 mmHg for non-diabetic patients, and as SBP ≤139 mmHg and/or DBP ≤84 mmHg for diabetic patients, based on the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines. observational study

uncontrolled hypertensive patients.

Description:

Individuals who had blood pressure levels above these values were defined as uncontrolled hypertensive patients.