منابع مشابه
Ambulatory 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...
متن کاملAmbulatory blood pressure monitoring.
End-organ damage associated with hypertension is more closely related to ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) than clinic or casual blood pressure measurements. ABP measurements give better prediction of clinical outcome than clinic or casual blood pressure measurements. The technique of ABP monitoring (ABPM) is specialised; validated monitors and appropriate quality control measures should be used....
متن کاملAmbulatory blood pressure monitoring.
IN this issue Pickering and Harshfield review the use of invasive and noninvasive arterial blood pressure monitoring in ambulant humans. Their review is well balanced and comprehensive but is limited to the discussion of patients with hypertension. Although it is true that the Framingham Study, the Hypertension Detection and Follow-up Program, and the insurance industry data all show the powerf...
متن کاملAmbulatory Blood Pressure in Obesity
Differences in fat deposition and distribution seem to have a different impact on cardiovascular disease. Excess intra-abdominal (visceral) adiposity is detected by increased waist circumference and is often accompanied by disturbances in lipoprotein metabolism (increased VLDL and decreased HDL) [2] and other alterations in blood pressure and insulin sensitivity in the context of what is called...
متن کاملAmbulatory blood pressure in schoolchildren.
OBJECTIVE To define the range and variability of ambulatory blood pressure in normal schoolchildren. DESIGN Prospective study. METHODS Resting blood pressure of 1121 schoolchildren from Newcastle upon Tyne was recorded. An ambulatory blood pressure device, which uses both auscultatory (Korotkoff) and oscillometric methods of blood pressure measurement, was then put in place for 24 hours. ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Hypertension
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0194-911X,1524-4563
DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.34.4.818