Aims and Significance of pilot data
Determine:
1. The feasibility of the Southern California Healthy Heart and Blood Pressure registry as an effective method to recruit African American men to participate in a new research program
2. If participants are willing to comply with the study procedures including wearing an activity monitor, sleep study device, and ambulatory blood pressure monitor
3. The within subject variation for repeated measures of nocturnal blood pressure by ambulatory blood pressure and activity monitoring
4. If nocturnal systolic blood pressure is higher in men with self-reported nocturia ≥2 than in men with 0-1 nocturia
5. If use of long-acting antihypertensive medication as well as nighttime dosing of medication can lower nocturnal systolic blood pressure and reduce nocturia
Purpose:
Obtain key pilot data to show feasibility and document the reproducibility of the proposed measurements.
