Home blood pressure control and prescribing patterns of anti-hypertensive medications in a home blood pressure-based hypertension-specialized clinic in Japan: a sub-analysis of the Ohasama study.

ABSTRACT: Although the benefits of anti-hypertensive treatment are well known, the proportion of hypertensive patients with controlled blood pressure (BP) remains suboptimal. The present study aimed to compare BP control conditions in a hypertension-specialized clinic and non-hypertension-specialized clinics. This cross-sectional study used data from 379 treated patients who measured home BP in the Ohasama study between 2016 and 2019 (men: 43.0%, age: 71.6 years). Of those, 172 patients were managed at the hypertension-specialized clinic where physicians distributed home BP devices to each patient, evaluated the home BP data, and adjusted medications to maintain home BP values according to the recent Japanese guidelines. When we set morning home systolic/diastolic BP of <135/ < 85 mmHg as controlled

SUBMITTER: Satoh M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11700850 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature