NCT05552547Recruiting
Home BP Monitoring
Home BP Monitoring for Diagnosis of Hypertension in African American Adolescents
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 10 Dec 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Most cases of high blood pressure in teens are missed for a number of reasons. One reason is that the most common way to make a diagnosis is to make three or more blood pressure measurements in a doctor's office on separate days. This can be inconvenient. Also, measuring blood pressure in the office might be inaccurate, since children (including teens) might have high values in the office but normal values at home. For these reasons, investigators wish to study a different way to identify teens with high blood pressure. Home BP measurements have been used in Europe to make a diagnosis, but not yet in the United States, and never in a higher risk population of teens. African American teens are at higher risk for high blood pressure than other teens. Investigators will compare the values received from the home BP machines to another method (24 hour ambulatory BP monitoring or ABPM) which is the best standard for diagnosis. Investigators also want to learn more about participants experience and their child's experience with both methods. A small sample of participating teens and parents will be invited to participate in short telephone interviews. This study plans to enroll a total of 750 teens at UH. Recruitment will not take place from other organizations.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 750 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 20 Sept 2022
- Start date
- 1 Oct 2023
- Primary completion date
- 30 Sept 2026
- Lead sponsor
- University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
- Diseases
- High blood pressure
- NCT number
- NCT05552547
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 750
- From 1 Oct 2023 to the primary completion date, 30 Sept 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.
Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- Prior hypertension diagnosis
- Prescribed BP medication
- Prescribed and using stimulants and other medications on a regular basis known to raise blood pressure such as testosterone and nicotine replacement
Other illness
- History of congenital heart disease
- History of solid organ transplant
Who the study is looking for
- Self-identify or identified by a parent as African-American or of partly African American ancestry
Age in the registry: 13 years to 18 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center* Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cleveland | United States | Recruiting |
This page is information, not medical advice. Discuss any trial with your doctor.