Effectiveness of an impedance cardiography guided treatment strategy to improve blood pressure control in a real-world setting: results from a pragmatic clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test the effectiveness of an impedance cardiography (ICG) guided treatment strategy on improving blood pressure (BP) control in real-world clinical practice.

Design

A single-centre, pragmatic randomised trial.

Setting

A hypertension clinic of the Peking University People's Hospital in Beijing, China.

Participants

Adults who sought outpatient care for hypertension in the hypertension clinic at the Peking University People's Hospital between June and December 2019.

Interventions

A computerised clinical decision support of recommending treatment choices to providers based on patients' haemodynamic profiles measured by ICG.

Main outcome measures

Changes in systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) levels at the follow-up visit 4-12 weeks a

SUBMITTER: Lu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8477318 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature