Antihypertensive treatment based on home or office blood pressure measurement: Protocol of the randomized controlled THOP trial

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 3, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages

  Celis, Hilde ^a   Staessen, Jan A ^a,d   Buntinx, Frank ^a   Fagard, Robert ^a   Leeman, Marc ^b   Thijs, Lut ^a   Van Hedent, Thierry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c ZENECA NV   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antihypertensive treatment; Home blood pressure; Hypertension; Left ventricular hypertrophy; Office blood pressure; Self measured blood pressure

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; ATENOLOL; CHLORTALIDONE; LISINOPRIL; PRAZOSIN;

ADULT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HOME MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANOMETER; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0032443299     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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