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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