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Q Is home based, self measurement of blood pressure (BP) more effective than office based, physician measurement as a basis for initiating and titrating antihypertensive drug treatment?
METHODS
Design:
randomised controlled trial.
Allocation:
concealed.
Blinding:
blinded {patients, physician making treatment decisions, outcome assessors, data analysts, and monitoring committee}*.
Follow up period:
1 year.
Setting:
56 primary care practices and 3 hospital based outpatient clinics in Leuven, Belgium and a specialised hypertension clinic in Dublin, Ireland.
Patients:
400 patients ⩾18 years of age (mean age 53 y, 52% women) who had either untreated or treated hypertension (using ⩽2 antihypertensive agents), and the last of 3 consecutive readings …
Footnotes
↵* Information provided by author.
For correspondence: Dr J A Staessen, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. jan.staessenmed.kuleuven.ac.be
Sources of funding: AstraZeneca NV (Brussels) and AstraZeneca Pharaceuticals Ltd (Dublin). Pfizer NV (Brussels) donated amlodipine and prazosin.