Twenty-four hour ambulatory blood pressure: a sample from a normal British population
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Twenty-four hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in general practice.
OBJECTIVES To assess the role of ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring in the diagnosis of hypertension in general practice. BACKGROUND Hypertension is usually diagnosed by means of casual office BP readings. However, ambulatory BP monitoring has shown that a significant proportion of patients diagnosed as hypertensive do not in fact have hypertension. METHOD Sixty-four Indian patients ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Human Hypertension
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0950-9240,1476-5527
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1000564