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Epidemiology of Hypertensive Emergency

NCT00005240 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 210

Last updated 2015-12-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To test the hypotheses that hypertensive emergency was associated with non-compliance with antihypertensive medication, low level of contact with the medical care system, and alcohol abuse and cigarette smoking. Also, to describe the clinical characteristics of patients hospitalized with hypertensive emergency including morbidity, mortality, and cost, and the extent to which hypertensive emergency occured among previously diagnosed and treated hypertensives.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

    collaborator NIH

  • Columbia University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Steven Shea, MD · Hamilton Southworth Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epide, Dept of Medicine General Medicine

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1989-10-31
Primary Completion
1991-06-30
Completion
1992-12-31

Countries

  • United States

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