Home control of high blood pressure
Palade, D.; Cotârleţ, M.; Pandele, G.I.
Revista Medico-Chirurgicala a Societatii de Medici Si Naturalisti Din Iasi 114(3): 644-649
2010
ISSN/ISBN: 0048-7848 PMID: 21243788 Document Number: 645069
Control of blood pressure is far from satisfactory, reaching approximately 13% in Romania according the SEPHAR study. Assessment of blood pressure control in elderly by blood pressure monitoring at home. 64 hypertensive patients (36 women and 28 men) with mean age of 76.3 years which blood pressure has been normalized by admitting in hospital were followed for a period of three months, by self-measuring blood pressure at home (twice a week). In the first week after hospital discharge the mean systolic pressure was 158 +/- 17.06 and after adjustment of treatment was 136.76 +/- 11.36 mmHg. To the end of the study blood pressure was controlled at a rate of 81.25%. To increase the percentage of therapeutic control of blood pressure at home, small changes in drug dosage are needed.