Reducing Hypertension in a Post-Stroke Black and Hispanic Homecare Population: Results of a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.

CONCLUSION: The significant across-the-board SBP decreases suggest that UHC nurse/patient/physician interactions were the central component of SBP reduction and that additional efforts to lower recurrent stroke risk should test incremental improvements in usual care, not resource-intensive transitional care interventions. They also suggest the potential value of pragmatic homecare programs as part of a broader strategy to overcome HTN treatment barriers and improve secondary stroke prevention globally.
PMID: 31541606 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: American Journal of Hypertension - September 20, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Feldman PH, McDonald MV, Trachtenberg M, Trifilio M, Onorato N, Sridharan S, Silver S, Eimicke J, Teresi J Tags: Am J Hypertens Source Type: research