Treatment of Resistant Hypertension: Cohort Study
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Add-on therapy
- Conditions
- Resistant Hypertension
- Sponsor
- Galenika AD Beograd
- Enrollment
- 731
- Locations
- 12
- Primary Endpoint
- Rate of normalization of arterial blood pressure
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 3 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
This is a multicenter, prospective observational cohort study. It will compare effectiveness and safety of various add-on treatment options in regard to arterial blood pressure control in adult patients with treatment resistant hypertension: an aldosterone receptor blocker (e.g. spironolactone), a loop diuretic, a thiazide in large daily dose, an alpha 1 selective blocker or a beta 1 selective blocker. The add-on therapy will be prescribed to the patients within the scope of their routine medical care, independently from the study investigators. The patients will be followed up for 6 months, with monthly visits and continuous home blood pressure diary kept by the patients themselves.
Detailed Description
This is a multicenter, prospective observational cohort study. It will compare effectiveness and safety of various add-on treatment options in regard to arterial blood pressure control in adult patients with treatment resistant hypertension: an aldosterone receptor blocker (e.g. spironolactone), a loop diuretic, a thiazide in large daily dose, an alpha 1 selective blocker or a beta 1 selective blocker. The add-on therapy will be prescribed to the patients within the scope of their routine medical care, independently from the study investigators. Both office and home blood pressure measures will be recorded at baseline and then every month for 6 visits. The systolic and diastolic blood pressure targets are chosen according to European guidelines for treatment of hypertension, i.e. \< 140/90 mmHg. Participants will have contact with the study team at any time to obtain information on interim study outcomes (updated medical history, completion of study questionnaires). Before, during and after the study the patients will be cared for by their chosen general practitioners independently from the study investigators and referred to internal medicine specialists as necessary, according to diagnostic and treatment protocols currently in power at the study sites. Role of the study investigators will be limited to observation and collection of data from the patients themselves and from their medical files.
Investigators
Slobodan Jankovic
Professor
Galenika AD Beograd
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Provision of signed and dated informed consent form
- •Resistant hypertension is defined as casual blood pressure during clinical examination of more than 140/90 mmHg despite treatment with optimal or best-tolerated doses of three or more drugs, which should include a diuretic, typically an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor or an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB), and a calcium channel blocker (CCB) (or beta blocker). All reference blood pressures will be taken as a mean of the 2nd and 3rd measurements in physician's office during a single examination, measured at least 3 min apart
- •Aged 18 years or above
- •Inadequate control of hypertension is confirmed with home blood pressure monitoring (average of morning and evening measurements after 5 minutes of relaxation in sitting position, for 6 days)
Exclusion Criteria
- •Pregnancy, anticipated pregnancy, or breastfeeding
- •Incarceration or institutionalized living which may prohibit measurement of home blood pressure
- •Participation in another intervention study that may affect blood pressure
- •Patients in whom systolic blood pressure is not measurable (e.g. those with left ventricular assist devices)
- •Hypotension: average systolic blood pressure \<100 mmHg over last 2 weeks prior to screening while not taking any blood pressure medications
- •Life expectancy \<4 months
- •Anticipated living donor kidney transplant within 4 months
- •Patients with a systolic blood pressure value over 220 mmHg requiring immediate adjustments of therapy
- •Patients with moderate to severe renal insufficiency (acute or chronic) with glomerular filtration rate of less than 30 ml/min
- •Patients with active bronchospastic disorders
Arms & Interventions
Resistant hypertension
The adult patients with resistant hypertension which is defined as casual blood pressure during clinical examination of more than 140/90 mmHg despite treatment with optimal or best-tolerated doses of three or more drugs, which should include a diuretic, typically an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor or an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB), and a calcium channel blocker (CCB). All reference blood pressures will be taken as a mean of the 2nd and 3rd measurements in physician's office during a single examination, measured at least 3 min apart. The following add-on therapy is available in Serbia, where the study is conducted: an aldosterone receptor blocker (e.g. spironolactone), a loop diuretic (e.g. furosemide), a thiazide in large daily dose, an alpha 1 selective blocker and a beta 1 selective blocker.
Intervention: Add-on therapy
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Rate of normalization of arterial blood pressure
Time Frame: 6 months
Decrease of arterial blood pressure to normal levels according to the 2018 European Society for Cardiology (ESC)/European Society for Hypertension (ESH) Guidelines (\<140/90 mmHg) after 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 months
Rate of reduction of systolic arterial blood pressure
Time Frame: 6 months
Reduction of systolic arterial blood pressure for 10 mmHg or more after 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 months
Rate of reduction of diastolic arterial blood pressure
Time Frame: 6 months
Reduction of diastolic arterial blood pressure for 5 mmHg or more after 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 months
Adverse events rate
Time Frame: 6 months
Incidence of adverse events
Treatment withdrawal rate
Time Frame: 6 months
Tolerability
Secondary Outcomes
- Blood pressure(6 months)
- Renal function(6 months)
- Quality of life on a scale 0 to 1(6 months)