What this means
Researchers will follow older adults to see if very low daytime blood pressure links to falls or death. The study has not reported results yet, so it cannot show whether there is a link.
Plain-English summary written by an AI model from the registry listing.
- Status
- Recruiting
- Who can join
- Ages 75 and over
- Where
- 1 site
The science
- Registered title
- Study on Blood Pressure Variability and Frailty in the Older People
- Trial ID
- NCT06868069 ↗
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Study type
- observational
- Conditions
- Hypertension, Old Age
- What is tested
- Diagnostic tests and questionnaires
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
- Ages
- 75 Years to no maximum
- Dates
- First posted Mar 10, 2025 · updated Mar 30, 2026
Registry summary
Observational prospective single-center, non-profit study. Primary objective of the study: To determine if the hypotensive phenotype, defined as one episode of daytime systolic blood pressure (SBP) \<90 mmHg (or two episodes of daytime SBP \<90 mmHg, if mean 24 h SBP is \<125 mmHg) detected at Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) is associated with adverse events at follow up (death, hospitalization, falls, emergency room admission for uncontrolled hypertension, major cardiovascular events)
Sites (1)
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS, Milan, Italy