Home BP Monitoring
Most cases of high blood pressure in teens are missed for a number of reasons. One reason is that the most common way to make a diagnosis is to make three or more blood pressure measurements in a doctor's office on separate days. This can be inconvenient. Also, measuring blood pressure in the office might be inaccurate
| Condition(s) | High Blood Pressure |
|---|---|
| Status | Recruiting |
| Phase | NA |
| Study type | Interventional |
| Summary | Most cases of high blood pressure in teens are missed for a number of reasons. One reason is that the most common way to make a diagnosis is to make three or more blood pressure measurements in a doctor's office on separate days. This can be inconvenient. Also, measuring blood pressure in the office might be inaccurate, since children (including teens) might have high values in the office but normal values at home. For these reasons, investigators wish to study a different way to identify teens with high blood pressure. Home BP measurements have been used in Europe to make a diagnosis, but not yet in the United States, and never in a higher risk population of teens. African American teens are at higher risk for high blood pressure than other teens. Investigators will compare the values rec |
| Who can participate | Inclusion Criteria: * Self-identify or identified by a parent as African-American or of partly African American ancestry Exclusion Criteria: * Prior hypertension diagnosis * Prescribed BP medication * History of congenital heart disease * History of solid organ transplant * Prescribed and using stimulants and other medications on a regular basis known to raise blood pressure such as testosterone and nicotine replacement |
| Ages | 13 Years to 18 Years |
| Sex | All |
| Accepts healthy volunteers | Yes |
| Lead sponsor | University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center |
| Locations | Cleveland, Ohio, United States |
| Start date | 2023-10-01 |
| NCT ID | NCT05552547 |
| Official listing | https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05552547 |