Treatment of white coat HYpertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET 2) - feasibility of a randomized controlled trial (study protocol)

Autor: Stephen Bremner, Nicky Perry, Christopher J. Bulpitt, Richard Quirk, Colin McAlister, John F. Potter, M Okorie, Nigel Beckett, Khalid Ali, Chakravarthi Rajkumar, Stephen P. Jackson
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Artery Research, Vol 25 (2019)
Popis: The results of HYpertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET) were crucial in providing evidence of benefit of the treatment of hypertension in those 80 years or older. Following a subsequent sub study analysis of the HYVET data there is a suggestion that 50% of patients in the main study had White Coat Hypertension (WCH), defined as clinic BP readings >140/90 mmHg and ambulatory BP readings
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