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Blood Pressure Lowering Strategies to Eliminate Hypertension Disparities (BLESSED)
Blood Pressure Lowering Strategies to Eliminate Hypertension Disparities
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 1 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The burden of hypertension and related cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and end-stage kidney disease is disproportionately high in Black populations, especially in the South. The Blood Pressure Lowering Strategies to Eliminate Hypertension Disparities (BLESSED) cluster randomized trial aims to test the effectiveness, implementation, and sustainability of a community health worker (CHW)-led multifaceted intervention compared to enhanced usual care for hypertension control in Black communities. In the BLESSED trial, the investigators plan to recruit 1,176 adults with hypertension (approximately 28 per church) from 42 predominantly Black churches in the Greater New Orleans area. The multifaceted intervention will last for 18 months, followed by a post-intervention follow-up visit at 24 months. The BLESSED trial aims to generate evidence regarding the effectiveness, implementation, and sustainability of this CHW-led church-based multifaceted intervention in eliminating hypertension disparities in the United States (US) general population.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 1176 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 1 Nov 2023
- Start date
- 1 Nov 2023
- Primary completion date
- 30 Jun 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Tulane University
- Diseases
- High blood pressure
- NCT number
- NCT06133322
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 1176
- From 1 Nov 2023 to the primary completion date, 30 Jun 2027
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Prior hospitalization in the last 3 months for chronic heart failure or heart attack
Other illness
- Current diagnosis of cancer requiring chemotherapy or radiation therapy
- Stage-5 chronic kidney disease requiring chronic dialysis or transplant
Other
- Pregnant or planning to become pregnant in the next 18 months
- Planning to move out of the Greater New Orleans area during the next year
Who the study is looking for
- Men or women aged ≥18 years
- Community members associated with the participating churches (church members and their families and friends)
- Systolic blood pressure ≥130 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure ≥80 mm Hg
- Willing and able to participate in the intervention.
- Willing and able to sign written informed consent.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tulane University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Orleans | United States | Recruiting |
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