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First received: September 20, 2022

Clinical Trial: Home BP Monitoring

Study Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Recruit Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Condition: High Blood Pressure

Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL


Official Title: Home BP Monitoring for Diagnosis of Hypertension in African American Adolescents

Brief Summary: Most cases of high blood pressure in teens are missed for a number of reasons.One reason is that the most common way to make a diagnosis is to make three or more blood pressure measurements in a doctor's office on separate days.This can be inconvenient.Also, measuring blood pressure in the office might be inaccurate, since children (including teens) might have high values in the office but normal values at home.For these reasons, investigators wish to study a different way to identify teens with high blood…

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