Home blood pressure monitoring, secure electronic messaging and medication intensification for improving hypertension control

Home blood pressure monitoring, secure electronic messaging and medication intensification for improving hypertension control: a mediation analysis.

OBJECTIVE We evaluated the role of home monitoring, communication with pharmacists, medication intensification, medication adherence and lifestyle factors in contributing to the effectiveness of an intervention to improve blood pressure control in patients with uncontrolled essential hypertension. METHODS We performed a mediation analysis of a published randomized trial based on the Chronic C...

Home blood pressure monitoring: a tool for better hypertension control.

Home blood pressure (BP) measurements enjoy a growing popularity in medical practice for several reasons. One, self-measured BP in the home environment is much less affected by the so-called white coat effect than BP values obtained by a doctor or a nurse in the clinic environment.1,2 This makes home BP closer to BP values prevailing in daily life. By minimizing the highly variable cardiovascul...

The association between medication adherence and treatment intensification with blood pressure control in resistant hypertension.

Patients with resistant hypertension are at risk for poor outcomes. Medication adherence and intensification improve blood pressure (BP) control; however, little is known about these processes or their association with outcomes in resistant hypertension. This retrospective study included patients from 2002 to 2006 with incident hypertension from 2 health systems who developed resistant hyperten...

Home blood pressure monitoring.

Home blood pressure monitoring.

Home blood pressure monitoring Shah and colleagues found patients with heart failure who lived in areas of socioeconomic deprivation were less likely than those in more affluent areas to be treated with recommended beta blockers. 1 We recently investigated use of home blood pressure (BP) monitoring in stroke patients registered at a deprived inner city general practice in Lambeth. In March 2008...