Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: an essential tool for blood pressure assessment in uraemic patients
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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: an essential tool for blood pressure assessment in uraemic patients.
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) has been growing steadily in popularity, as equipment becomes more portable, accurate and affordable, software packages more powerful, and physicians more accepting of its advantages (see Table 1). However, the most recent guidelines from National and International Hypertension Societies only advocate its use in ‘difficult’ cases (Table 2) [1]. This c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/17.10.1737