A clinical trial to study effect of Homoeopathy and life style modification in stage I hypertensio
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Essential hypertension
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/08/015228
- Lead Sponsor
- Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 214
1. 30 to 60 yrs
2.Both genders
3.Essential hypertension of stage I (SBP 140-159; DBP 90-99)
4.Patients who were not on any anti-hypertensive medicine since last 1 month.
5.Patients willing to participate in the study.
1.Patients with secondary hypertension of any etiology.
2.Patients with pre hypertension, stage II hypertension as per JNC 7 criteria.
3.Known Diabetics.
4.Patients with a history of myocardial infarction, severe coronary artery disease or clinically significant heart failure or valvular defect or known cases of cardiac diseases.
5.Patients with systemic illness
6.Patients receiving any drugs known to affect blood pressure
7.Patients judged to have a history of alcohol or drug abuse
8.Women who are taking contraceptive pills, pregnancy and lactating mother.
9.Patients suffering from hypothyroidism.
10.Unable or unwilling to give informed consent
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1 To evaluate the mean change in systolic and diastolic blood pressure from baseline at every month for 3 months from baseline as per routine method. <br/ ><br>2 To evaluate the changes in Ambulatory BP at 3rd month from baseline.Timepoint: every month for 3 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Percent of patients meeting the goal BP of SBPâ?¤ 135mmHg and DBP â?¤85 mmHg in patients of both the groupsTimepoint: 3 months