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Home-based hypertension care led to reductions in systolic blood pressure and improvements in hypertension control in South Africa, according to late-breaking research presented in a Hot Line session at the ESC Congress 2025 and simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
“Hypertension is the primary risk factor for stroke and heart disease, which are leading causes of death in South Africa. Despite the wide availability of low-cost, effective therapies, hypertension control remains extremely poor in resource-limited settings. Obstacles include a lack of patient confidence to manage their own hypertension care, overcrowded clinics with long wait times and the cost of transport to clinics,” explained the IMPACT-BP trial’s Co-Principal Investigator, Doctor Thomas Gaziano from Mass General Brigham (MGB) and Harvard Medical School, Boston, U.S.
“Our trial aimed to assess the effectiveness and implementation of reliable, home-based, technology-supported interventions to improve blood pressure control in low-resourced rural South Africa.”
IMPACT-BP was an open-label, randomized controlled trial conducted at the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in which patients were recruited from two public-sector primary health care clinics.
The implementation study was designed with Co-Principal Investigator, Doctor Mark Siedner of AHRI and MGH, Professor…
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Publish date : 2025-09-01 18:37:00
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