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The POP-HT Randomised trial showed that in women affected by hypertensive pregnancy, remote self-management of blood pressure following hospital discharge has a huge impact on short and long-term blood pressure control and readmission rates in the first two weeks. Furthermore, improved blood pressure control leads to beneficial cardiac, vascular and brain remodelling out to one year postpartum, which may in turn reduce the long-term risk of end-organ damage
This talk will discuss why the puerperium is so important for this cohort of women, how to achieve optimal blood pressure control in a real-world setting, and the common pitfalls and potential solutions in different healthcare settings.
As always, we will take as many of your questions as possible.
Presenter
Jamie Kitt
Dr Jamie Kitt is a dual-accredited Cardiology & General Internal Medicine (GIM) Consultant who trained in Oxford. He has sub-specialty training in Echo, Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), Cardiac CT, and Hypertension, the latter of which complements his research expertise within hypertensive pregnancy. He now works as an imaging cardiologist in London for the NHS and continues his post-doctoral research in Oxford in hypertensive pregnancy.
He completed a PhD studying the cardiac complications of hypertensive pregnancy between 2018 and 2022, where he was awarded a British Heart Foundation fellowship to perform a randomised trial on post-partum self-management in hypertensive pregnancy (POP-HT). This resulted in several high-impact publications in the field of hypertensive pregnancy, with the key POP-HT trial papers published in JAMA, Hypertension and Circulation to coincide with the trial’s presentation at the American Heart Association’s late-breaking Science in November 2023.
He was awarded the early career research award of the British and Irish Hypertension Society in Autumn 2024 and the University of Oxford Graduate Prize Award in March 2025 for this body of work. Dr Kitt is now collaborating with a multi-centre PCORI-funded trial of postpartum BP self-management in the USA, the multi-centre validation of POP-HT in the UK (SNAP2)
He is in New Zealand to work with Prof Larry Chamley to adapt the principles developed in POP-HT to the New Zealand model of postpartum care during a visiting lectureship in December 2025.
