Hypertension
Conditions
Keywords
Epidemiology, hypertension, risk factors, coronary heart disease, patient management, compliance with medication
Brief summary
To assess the pattern of hypertension in the population in terms of presence of additional risk factors (ARF) and cardiovascular risk stratification.
Detailed description
routine physician visits
Interventions
OTHERUsual Care
Normal care for hypertensive patients with risk factors for CHD
Sponsors
Pfizer's Upjohn has merged with Mylan to form Viatris Inc.
Study design
Observational model
CASE_ONLY
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Age 18 to 80 years old * Patients with hypertension: newly diagnosed and /or already diagnosed and treated , whether at goal or not for the blood pressure level; * Patients with no history of CHD/CVD
Exclusion criteria
* None
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Description of hypertensive patients in terms of presence of associated cardiovascular (CV) risk factors (number of additional CV risk factors and frequency) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Description of pattern of management of HT and CVD prevention, through lifestyle and use of drug therapies, | — |
| Estimate adherence to treatment using the Morisky Adherence Scale (MAS) | — |
| Estimation of hypertensive patients CV risk stratification based on ESH/ESC Hypertension Guidelines 2007 and to compare it with physicians' estimation of CV risk. | — |
Countries
Croatia, Czechia
Outcome results
None listed