Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring – Clinical Practice Recommendations
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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in clinical practice: a review.
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring offers the ability to collect blood pressure readings several times an hour across a 24-hour period. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring facilitates the identification of white-coat hypertension, the phenomenon whereby certain individuals who are not taking antihypertensive medication show elevated blood pressure in a clinical setting but show nonelevated b...
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Traditionally, blood pressure has been measured by the sphygmomanometer in the medical office. There is growing evidence, however, that office blood pressures may not be typical of values throughout the day. Between 20% and 30% of patients diagnosed with hypertension in the office actually are normotensive at other times. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring with small, portable devices that au...
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It has taken 40 years for the ideas first proposed in this quote from an article1 on a new portable device for recording blood pressure (BP) to be considered for routine clinical practice. However, it did not take this long for astute researchers to recognize the importance of the development of this portable BP recorder, later known by the name of its manufacturer, the Remler Company. By 1966,...
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This report reviews the evidence for and against clinical use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) on a large scale. Such monitoring is supported by a number of data, among which is that the end-organ damage associated with hypertension correlates more with 24-h average blood pressure than with clinic blood pressure, the correlation becoming even closer with addition of blood pressure...
متن کاملAmbulatory blood-pressure monitoring.
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is becoming widely accepted as a clinically useful tool for assessing cardiovascular risk in hypertensive patients, although it is not generally recognized for reimbursement in the United States. There are now six major prospective studies, all of which have shown that ABPM gives a better prediction of risk than conventional clinic measurement. A coro...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Acta Medica Marisiensis
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2247-6113
DOI: 10.1515/amma-2016-0038