Characteristics and treatment of African-American and European-American patients with resistant hypertension identified using the electronic health record in an academic health centre: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify patients with hypertension with resistant and controlled blood pressure (BP) using electronic health records (EHRs) in order to elucidate practices in the real-world clinical treatment of hypertension and to enable future genetic studies.

Design

Using EHRs, we developed and validated algorithms to identify patients with resistant and controlled hypertension.

Setting

An academic medical centre in Nashville, Tennessee.

Population

European-American (EA) and African-American (AA) patients with hypertension.

Main outcome measures

Demographic characteristics: race, age, gender, body mass index, outpatient BPs and the history of diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease stage 3, ischaemic heart disease, transient ischaemic attack, atrial f

SUBMITTER: Shuey MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6020960 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature