The EARNEST Study: Interarm blood pressure differences should also be recorded

The EARNEST study: interarm blood pressure differences should also be recorded.

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Interarm blood pressure differences in the women's interagency HIV study.

Hypertension has been reported in 8-32% of HIV-infected individuals. Large interarm blood pressure differences (IABPD) may cause misclassification of blood pressure (BP) status. The objectives of this study were to determine the magnitude and factors associated with IABPD in HIV-infected women and uninfected controls. Using automated devices, two BP recordings were measured and averaged from ea...

The interarm blood pressure difference.

The Interarm Blood Pressure Difference To the Editor: Agarwal et al1 report on the prognostic significance of an interarm blood pressure difference in a cohort of renal and general medical clinic subjects. They cite studies in asserting that the right arm blood pressure consistently reads higher than the left. We have systematically reviewed these and other studies.2 We found no overall evidenc...

Who should be taking the blood pressure?

Given the variability of blood pressure, it is often difficult to make a diagnosis of hypertension or to evaluate the effect of treatment on the basis of single blood pressure readings in the office. To obtain multiple measurements one can either turn to ambulatory blood pressure monitoring or have the patient take his or her own pressure. Both approaches require the availability of reliable, v...

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