Status:
COMPLETED
Black Education and Treatment of Hypertension (BEAT HTN)
Lead Sponsor:
Creighton University
Conditions:
Hypertension
Eligibility:
All Genders
25-80 years
Phase:
PHASE4
Brief Summary
Clinical trials have yet to test the adequacy of HTN control in African Americans (AA) when both control and intervention groups are given free antihypertensive medications and are involved in usual v...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Demographics: men or women of self-declared African-American heritage between 25 and 80 years of age residing in the Omaha, Nebraska metropolitan area
- History of documented uncontrolled (treated or untreated) hypertension (HTN) as defined by JNC 7 guidelines
- Study eligibility will be based on the subject's current blood pressure control based on the average of two seated blood pressure measurements at two consecutive clinic visits at least one week apart
- Untreated subjects with elevated blood pressure (\> 140/90 mmHg or \< 130/80 mmHg for diabetics)
- Subjects treated with antihypertensive therapy whose blood pressure does not meet current JNC 7 guidelines (\< 140/90 mmHg for non-diabetics and \< 130/80 mmHg for diabetics)
Exclusion
- Myocardial infarction or stroke in the previous 6 months
- Symptomatic heart failure or a left ventricular ejection fraction \< 35%
- Angina pectoris in the prior six months
- Coronary revascularization procedure in the prior 6 months
- Renal insufficiency defined as a serum creatinine \> 2 mg/dl
- Illicit drug or alcohol abuse in the prior 6 months
- Dementia or other organic brain disease
- Serious systemic illness with a shortened life expectancy or other limitation that precludes participation in this trial
- Secondary HTN
- Concurrent participation in an investigational medication trial
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 2005
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
November 1 2009
Estimated Enrollment :
99 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00661895
Start Date
August 1 2005
End Date
November 1 2009
Last Update
December 4 2012
Active Locations (1)
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Creighton Community Health Center
Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68104