Seasonal Variation of Ambulatory Blood Pressure

NCT ID: NCT01119755

Last Updated: 2012-01-23

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 80 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2010-01-31
• Study Completion Date: 2011-08-31

Brief 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

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_ONLY
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Age > 40 yrs
• Treated hypertension on stable treatment for at least 8 weeks
• Average home blood pressure (at least 5 days, 20 readings) < 130/80 mmHg

Exclusion Criteria

• Congestive heart failure
• Use of loop diuretics

• Minimum Eligible Age: 40 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 80 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Athens

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

George S. Stergiou

Professor of Medicine

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

George S Stergiou, MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Hypertension Center,Third Department of Medicine,University of Athens,Greece

Locations

Hypertension Center, Third Department of Medicine, University of Athens, Greece

Athens, , Greece

Countries

Greece

Other Identifiers

SV

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id