Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring versus office blood pressure measurement: Are there sex differences?

The accurate measurement of blood pressure (BP) is an important prerequisite for the reliable diagnosis and efficient management hypertension other medical conditions. Office Blood Pressure Measurement (OBP) a technique performed in-office with sphygmomanometer, while Ambulatory Monitoring (ABPM) that measures during 24h. BP fluctuations also depend on factors such as physical activity, temperature, mood, age, sex, any pathologies, hormonal activity may intrinsically influence differences between OBP ABPM. aim this study to examine possible sex discrepancies ABPM in 872 subjects known or suspected hypertension. A significant correlation was observed mean values calculated day, night 24h (ABPMday, ABPMnight, ABPM24h) both groups (p<0.0001). main finding no difference sexes relation ABMP except systolic night. In addition, showed moderate BPs obtained two approaches great dispersion around regression line which suggests cannot be used interchangeably.