Update: Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Children and Adolescents

Blood pressure, hypertension, and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children and adolescents.

Fixed essential hypertension in children is uncommon. Confusion surrounding the definitions and tools used in measuring blood pressure (BP), and the variable capacity to apply the definitions despite the device used explains this in part. In children, hypertension is defined statistically, based on a large normative population that is ethnically diverse. The standards were developed from the fi...

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children.

Recently there have been great advances in the use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in children. A major boost has been the publication of normative data for blood pressure in children. ABPM has been able to detect significant differences in blood pressure in many disease states including chronic renal failure, polycystic kidney disease and post renal transplantation and has helpe...

Update: ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children and adolescents: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

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....