NCT01915199

Effects of a Comprehensive Intervention on Blood Pressure Control in a Primary Care Setting

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 144 (actual)
• Sponsor: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 35 Years – 74 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The implementation of lifestyle modifications, home blood pressure (BP) measurement, and optimization of antihypertensive drug therapy have been shown to improve BP control in tightly controlled research settings. The investigators objective is to determine the effect of these interventions in a primary care setting, with the family practitioners and nurses serving as the interventionists. The investigaotrs hypothesis is that a comprehensive intervention performed in a primary care setting would lead to better blood pressure control.

Conditions

• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Intensive Care	Comprehensive intervention on hypertension through optimization of drug therapy, introduction of home blood pressure monitoring, and lifestyle guidance

Timeline

• Start date: 2000-10-01
• Primary completion: 2002-12-01
• First posted: 2013-08-02
• Last updated: 2014-01-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland