Accounting for Blood Pressure Seasonality Alters Evaluation of Practice-Level Blood Pressure Control Intervention.

CONCLUSIONS: These findings reveal that analyses that do not account for BP seasonality may not present an accurate picture of intervention effects. In our case study, accounting for BP seasonality turned a negative association into a null association. We recommend that when evaluating BP control, studies compare outcome measures across similar seasons and that the measurement period last long enough to account for seasonal effects. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT02646488. PMID: 31711219 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: American Journal of Hypertension - November 9, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Gepts T, Nguyen AM, Cleland C, Wu W, Pham-Singer H, Shelley D Tags: Am J Hypertens Source Type: research