Prevalence of Hypertension Using Telemedical Home Blood Pressure Measurements

Erling Bjerregaard Pedersen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension

Treatments: Other: Telemedical home blood pressure measurements

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02355392

M-20110011

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of hypertension among citizens of Holstebro, Denmark aged 55-64 years, including both the well treated, the untreated and the insufficiently treated, and to estimate the prevalence of white coat and masked hypertension using home blood pressure measurements with telemedical data transmission.

Enrollment: 3,159 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55 to 64 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 55 to 64 years
• Registered address in the municipality of Holstebro
• Enrolment at a practice of one of the GPs who had agreed to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Unwillingness to participate
• Incapability to do home blood pressure measurements