Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Behavioral/Pharmacological Telemedicine Interventions for BP Control
Brief Summary: There are 65 million Americans and over 8.5 million veterans who have been diagnosed with hypertension; yet only 31% of all hypertensive patients have their blood pressure (BP) under effective control (less than 140/90 mm/Hg). Uncontrolled hypertension greatly increases the risk of cerebral vascular accidents, coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, renal failure, congestive heart failure, and mortality. Despite the damaging impact of hypertension and the availability of well-defined therapies and widely accepted target values for BP, interventions to improve BP control have had limited success.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* Arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease: defined as acute coronary syndrome; history of myocardial infarction, stable or unstable angina, coronary revascularization, stroke, or transient ischemic attack presumed to be of atherosclerotic origin and revascularization.
* Moderate-High CVD risk according to the WHO charts adapted by the National MoH (estimated 10-year CVD risk ≥ 20%)
* LDL-C level ≥ 190 mg/dL
* Type 2 diabetes in patients between 40 and 75 years of age

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients that are already receiving statins, pregnant women, bed-bound, and patients who cannot give informed consent.
* End stage chronics kidney disease receiving dialysis ,HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, alcohol or drugs abuse.
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adults aged 30 yrs+ diagnosed with hypertension and /or diabetes who are able to give written consent (or verbal witnessed consent for illiterate patients).

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patient requiring immediate referral to tertiary care due to accelerated hypertension, diabetic complications.
2. Patients with learning difficulties or vision/ hearing impairments but without a care giver making it impossible to use mobile phone.
3. Pregnant and lactating women.
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Diagnosis of uncontrolled hypertension,
* prescribed a medication to lower blood pressure,
* have a regular primary care physician at Durham VA Medical Center, and
* be a veteran. For Sustainability portion the patient must have participated in an intervention arm of primary study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Hospitalized in past 3 months for stroke,
* heart attack,
* surgery for blocked arteries,
* diagnosed with metastatic cancer or treated with dialysis,
* have a diagnosis of dementia or a hearing impairment which prevents them from being able to hear/speak on the telephone, and
* creatinine serum lab which exceed 2.5.
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* Diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus (the onset of diabetes must have occurred on or after the age of 30 years and there is no history of diabetic ketoacidosis)
* Uncontrolled systolic hypertension (defined as a daytime systolic BP of 130 mm Hg or higher on 24-hour ambulatory)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Conditions making the patient unsuitable for study such as severe cognitive impairment, language difficulties (unable to speak and understand instructions in English), frequent (more than once per month for more than week) or prolonged (more than 2 months) trips away from home, homelessness, self-identified substance abuse, being pregnant, or unable to use home BP device;
* Life expectancy less than one year
* Coexisting conditions that require frequent (more than once a month) office visits or repeated (more than once in the past year) hospitalizations
* Atrial fibrillation or other cardiac arrhythmias requiring drug treatment
* Moderately severe chronic renal failure defined as estimated GFR less than 25 mL/min
* Myocardial infarction, episode of heart failure requiring hospitalization, or paralyzing stroke in the past year
* Having unstable angina
* Severe valvular heart diseases such as severe aortic stenosis
* Symptomatic orthostatic hypotension
* Refusal to sign consent form or to carry out the demands made by the study

Answer: C