Theme II: debate: ambulatory blood pressure monitoring should be routine in clinical management Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) should be routinely performed. A critical view.
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[Which threshold values should be recommended in ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and self blood pressure monitoring?].
New methods to evaluate blood pressure – such as ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) and home monitoring of blood pressure (HMBP), have been increasingly more used in clinical practice as key source of additional information to the traditional evaluation of blood pressure measuring at the doctor’s office. There is a growing body of evidence available to show that both methods are strong...
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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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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....
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Hypertension
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0895-7061
DOI: 10.1016/s0895-7061(99)80780-8