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KMID : 4412620200260010024
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Clinical Hypertension
2020 Volume.26 No. 1 p.24 ~ p.24
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Effect of home blood pressure monitoring for blood pressure control in hypertensive patients taking multiple antihypertensive medications including fimasartan (the FORTE study)
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Choi Jung-Yeon
Kim Kwang-Il
Kim Cheol-Ho
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Abstract
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Background: Although recent hypertension guidelines recommend home blood pressure (HBP) monitoring, its effect in clinical practice is not well known. This study aimed to identify current HBP measurement status and obstacles and their efficacy on blood pressure (BP) control.
Methods: Sixty-three intervention and 61 control centers with 2483 (mean age: 58.0?years, 56.0% male) drug-naive stage 2 hypertensive patients or patients requiring second anti-hypertensive medications were included. The intervention group was instructed to measure HBP twice a day for 7?days from the scheduled visit at 4, 8, and 12?weeks.
Results: At the end of 12?weeks, 842 (68.7%) and 807 (64.15%) patients of the control and intervention groups, respectively, achieved a target BP. The odds ratio (OR) for improving BP control of HBP was 0.836 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.694?1.007). Among intervention group, clinic BP of the subgroup those measured their HBP at least once well controlled compared to subgroup those not measured their HBP at all (OR 1.602, 95% CI: 1.182?2.172). Only 19.17% (n =?476) had a home sphygmomanometer, and among those, 26.89% measured their BP at least once a week and 34.87% did not measure the BP at all. The obstacles of HBP measurement were lack of awareness of its importance (40.83%), lack of confidence on how to measure BP and maintain the measurement (37.04%), and difficulty in selecting an appropriate device (14.41%).
Conclusions: HBP measurement alone did not improve BP control, but better compliance with the HBP measurement resulted in improved BP control.
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KEYWORD
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Blood pressure, Hypertension, Korea
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