NCT01119755

Seasonal Variation of Ambulatory Blood Pressure

Seasonal Variation of 24hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Treated Hypertensives

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Athens · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a prospective study to evaluate the change in 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure during winter and summer in well controlled treated hypertensives.

Detailed description

Two 24hour ambulatory blood pressure monitorings, 4 to 6 months apart, will be performed on hypertensive subjects on a stable antihypertensive drug therapy for at least 4 weeks. The correlation of weather and temperature with the 24hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring will be explored.

Conditions

• Hypertension

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-01-01
• Primary completion: 2011-08-01
• Completion: 2011-08-01
• First posted: 2010-05-10
• Last updated: 2012-01-23
• Results posted: 2012-01-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Greece