Correlation between symptoms reported in activity diaries and blood pressure (BP) variations found by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM)

Diurnal variations in blood pressure: importance of ambulatory BP monitoring.

Fig. 1 : (a) Showing normal diurnal pattern in a normal person. Night time is shown as dark on time scale. SBP as well as DBP dip at night. (b) Showing inadequate nocturnal dip in a person with normal day time BP. (c) Showing nocturnal hypertension in a person with only transient episodes of hypertension during day. Fig. 2 : (a) Showing normal day time BP with over dipping at night. SBP falling...

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...

Ambulatory 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....

Ambulatory 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...

[IV Guideline for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. II Guideline for home blood pressure monitoring. IV ABPM/II HBPM].