{"id":20179,"date":"2018-07-06T11:37:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T11:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/spyros-kitsiou-is-co-investigator-of-a-new-2-7-million-grant-from-the-national-health-lung-and-blood-institute\/"},"modified":"2018-07-06T11:37:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T11:37:17","slug":"spyros-kitsiou-is-co-investigator-of-a-new-2-7-million-grant-from-the-national-health-lung-and-blood-institute","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/spyros-kitsiou-is-co-investigator-of-a-new-2-7-million-grant-from-the-national-health-lung-and-blood-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Spyros Kitsiou is co-investigator of a new $2.7 million grant from the National Health, Lung and Blood Institute"},"template":"","news_categories":[],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-20179","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p>BHIS assistant professor <strong>Spyros Kitsiou<\/strong> is a co-investigator on a new, $2.7 million research grant from the National Health, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) for the project \u201cTargeting of UnControlled Hypertension in Emergency Department (TOUCHED).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study proposes to conduct a randomized trial of an ED-based multi-component intervention compared to usual care for patients in the emergency room with elevated blood pressure with the primary outcome of blood pressure reduction at 3 and 6 months following the ED visit.<\/p>\n<p>Kitsiou (Co-I) will lead the mobile health technology component of the intervention, which involves the use of a mobile app and Bluetooth-enabled blood pressure monitor for self-management of hypertension, delivery of behavior change text-messages, and remote collection of patient-generated health data through the iCardia platform he has developed in his lab. Kitsiou is collaborating on this project with Dr. Heather Prendergast (PI) from the College of Medicine.<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"BHIS assistant professor is co-investigator of research project tilted, \u201cTargeting of UnControlled Hypertension in Emergency Department (TOUCHED)\u201d","content_author":"Spyros Kitsiou","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"intro_text_image":false,"intro_text_image_alt_text":"","intro_text_image_caption":"","intro_text_image_attribution":"","news_include_thumbnail":false,"news_thumbnail_image":false,"news_thumbnail_image_alt_text":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=20179"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=20179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}