National Blood Pressure Screening in Children to Improve Paediatric Healthcare in South Africa

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The Childhood Hypertension Consortium of South Africa (CHCSA) was established to foster relationships between the healthcare sector and schools through community engagement and outreach as well as contributing to the decolonization of normative paediatric blood pressure reference values. To date, there has been no nation-wide project in South Africa to determine nationally representative normal blood pressure reference values, nor to estimate the true prevalence of hypertension in the paediatric population of the country. This study will provide critical information on the understanding of blood pressure and hypertension in children, especially of African ancestry. Not only will this effort contribute to the development of the first nationally representative normal reference values of blood pressure but will also benefit healthcare providers in the sector with a clear guideline on the management of high blood pressure in children as developed by experts working with these challenges daily.

What you commit to

• Study type: Observational
• Planned participants: 22464
• From 1 Apr 2024 to the primary completion date, 30 Nov 2028
• 11 sites in 2 countries
• Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who the study is looking for

Age in the registry: 5 years to 18 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers

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Sites (11)

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