Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring After Pregnancy for High Blood Pressure Conditions
Tests video education and text reminders for people with pre-eclampsia or gestational hypertension after birth.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Ochsner Health System
- Where
- New Orleans, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Remote Postpartum Blood Pressure Monitoring and Cardiovascular Education
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 296 people, planned
- Started
- 17 Mar 2025
- Planned end
- 16 Oct 2026
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets no study treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Video
- Text Reminder
- Blood pressure threshold
- Record updated
- 9 April 2025
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for women after childbirth who had new high blood pressure during pregnancy. It tests remote blood pressure checks, education and text reminders.
- Age
- 18 years or older
- Sex
- Women only
- Disease stage
- New-onset high blood pressure during pregnancy; now after delivery (postpartum)
Main reasons for not taking part
- High blood pressure or preeclampsia in an earlier pregnancy
- Long-term (chronic) high blood pressure
- Heart disease, past stroke or heart failure
- Kidney, liver or left heart ventricle problems
- Stillbirth at delivery
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Age of at least 18 years
- Postpartum status
- Experience new-onset hypertension during pregnancy
- Enrollment in Connected MOM
- Ability to provide informed consent
- Establish medical care within the Ochsner System to facilitate data collection
Who cannot take part
- History of preeclampsia or gestational hypertension during previous pregnancy
- History of chronic hypertension
- History of coronary artery disease (myocardial infarction, coronary stent placement, coronary artery bypass grafting, spontaneous coronary artery dissection)
- History of ischemic CVA
- History of Congestive heart failure
- Congenital heart disease
- Renal dysfunction
- Liver dysfunction
- Left ventricular dysfunction
- Still birth at delivery
Where in United States
- Ochsner BaptistNew Orleans, United StatesContact: Ken BodeTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if patient education and regular text reminders are a feasible intervention to engage patients and reduce post partum hypertension. The main questions it aims to answer are:
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Is a structured postpartum remote blood pressure monitoring intervention with education and individualized medication initiation/adjustment follow-up by televisit feasible? Does a structured program reduce the occurrence of postpartum hypertension, ED visits, hospital readmissions, and adverse outcomes?
Participants will:
View an educational video on HDP post-delivery Receive 1-2 times daily text messages for 6 weeks postpartum Have their blood pressure medications adjusted to lower targets post partum
The 2 groups in the trial
- InterventionTreatment being tested
This group will watch an education video, receive text message updates, and have their blood pressure medications titrated to a lower BP goal.
Treatment: Video, Text Reminder, and Blood pressure threshold
- ControlNo study treatment, for comparison
This group will receive usual post partum care from their obstetrician
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Remote Postpartum Blood Pressure Monitoring and Cardiovascular Education to Reduce Emergency Department Visits, Re-admissions and Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Hypertensive Disorder of Pregnancy
- Plain-language title
- Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring After Pregnancy for High Blood Pressure ConditionsGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 9 April 2025