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Grand Rounds May 12, 2023: Design and Pragmatic Trial of COACH: A Patient Portal/EHR Information System for Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Hypertension (Richelle J. Koopman, MD, MS)

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The team’s goals were to design for the primary care setting because 85% of hypertension care is in this setting. Later this year, the study team will launch the COACH trial, a pragmatic clinical trial with 550 adult primary care patients with uncontrolled hypertension who are portal users.

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Grand Rounds September 16, 2022: Using Nationwide Registries to Conduct Pragmatic Randomized Trials: The DANFLU Program (Tor Biering-Sørensen, MD, PhD, MPH)

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The COlchicine Hypertension Trial (COHERENT) is a pragmatic Phase II trial that looked at only hypertension by using registry data to identify patients that receive at least two hypertension drugs. The DECODE trial used registry data to identify patients with chronic kidney disease. Learn more. Read about DANFLU-1.

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Grand Rounds February 9, 2024: Pragmatic Recruitment of Underrepresented Groups – Experience From the Diuretic Comparison Project (Cynthia Hau, MPH)

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The study started in June 2016 and ended in June 2022 and ultimately found no difference between the 2 drugs in preventing major CV outcomes and non-cancer death among hypertensive VA patients. The VA IRB determined DCP was a minimal risk study, with less restrictive eligibility criteria and EHR-based safety and outcome monitoring.

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Grand Rounds Ethics and Regulatory Series February 10, 2023: Informing and Consenting: What Are the Goals? (P. Pearl O’Rourke, MD; David S. Wendler, PhD, MA; Miguel Vazquez, MD; P. Michael Ho, MD, PhD)

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ICD-Pieces studied patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), diabetes and hypertension. Tags #pctGR, @Collaboratory1 The post Grand Rounds Ethics and Regulatory Series February 10, 2023: Informing and Consenting: What Are the Goals? (P. The intervention was to facilitate delivery of guideline-based care. Pearl O’Rourke, MD; David S.

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A history of Pfizer

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Others rapidly followed, including Glucotrol, aimed at diabetics, and Procardia, an anti-hypertensive. Formulated initially at the Sandwich site in the UK as an anti-hypertensive, it was found have “unexpected” side effects that made the company rapidly change the indication to erectile dysfunction.

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Viagra ‘should be tested as Alzheimer’s therapy’

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Sildenafil is also sold as Revatio to treat pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH). That finding could provide some comfort to Biogen and Eisai, whose recently-approved amyloid-targeting drug Aduhelm (aducanumab) is struggling to gain traction in the market on the back of unconvincing efficacy data, safety concerns and a high price tag.

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A history of Johnson & Johnson

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The company brought with it a group of medicines that treat pulmonary arterial hypertension – well-established blockbuster Tracleer (bosentan), and the more recently-approved Opsumit (macitentan) and Uptravi (selexipag), as well as a slew of pipeline products. . The post A history of Johnson & Johnson appeared first on.

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