Hypertension
Conditions
Interventions
1:Individualized medical information
2:only get life style education and usual medical care
Sponsors
Division of Epidemiology, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
Male
Age
35 Years to 65 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: (1) Patients with primary hypertension; (2) Age range: 35-65 years old; (3) BP lower than 160/100mmHg at diagnosis, or systolic blood pressure lower than 145mmHg for patients already on antihypertensive medications measured in clinic at recruitment; (4) Patients have at least graduated from primary school; (5) No deafness, blindness, or dementia, have no difficulty in understanding the antihypertensive information and information in the questionnaire; (6) Residents in Shenzhen, patients have no plan to move to other cities or countries in the following 6 months; (7) Informed consents have been signed.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: (1) Patients with hypertensive emergencies and urgencies, which are judged by physicians in the primary care centers; (2) Patients with drug-induced hypertension, drugs include sympathomimetic agents, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and cycloxoygenase 2 (COX-2) inhibitors, corticosteroids, central nervous system (CNS) stimulants, estrogens and progesterone, dietary supplements, serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), immunosuppressants; (3) Patients with histories of coronary heart diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, chronic heart failure, chronic renal diseases, or diabetes mellitus, etc. (4) Patients risk of cardiovascular diseases over 20% in the future ten years; (5) Patients who did not get total cholesterol (TC) measured within 2 years before the study, or those whose TC values cannot be found in the medical record; (6) Women in pregnancy or lactation; (7) Patients possibly with low compliance to follow-up.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Treatment Rate;Rate of good adherenc; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Public ContactJin-Ling Tang
the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Outcome results
None listed