BACKGROUND The goal of this study was to assess the prognostic value of ambulatory versus clinic blood pressure measurement and to relate cardiovascular risk to ambulatory systolic and diastolic blood pressure levels. METHODS AND RESULTS The study population consisted of 688 patients 51+/-11 years of age who had undergone pretreatment 24-hour intra-arterial ambulatory blood pressure monitorin...

background: one of the main problems especially in operating room and monitoring devices is measurement of blood pressure (bp) by sphygmomanometer cuff. objective: in this study we designed a new method to measure bp changes continuously for detecting information between cuff inflation times by using vital signals in monitoring devices. this will be achieved by extraction of the time difference...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES (1) To explore the effect of continued nursing intervention on hypertensive patients based on chronotherapeutics. (2) To identify the factors affecting hypertensive patients' compliance to the chronotherapeutics-oriented nursing interventions. BACKGROUND Chronotherapy provides a means of individual treatment for hypertension according to the circadian blood-pressure profil...

There has been a steady increase in the prevalence of adolescent hypertension in recent years. In order to prevent target organ damages, it is important to determine the group of hypertensive adolescents. If repeatedly elevated blood pressure values are observed, with special emphasis on white coat hypertension, which is particularly frequent at this age, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have suggested that psychological interventions may be effective in reducing blood pressure. Using rigorous methodology and 24-hour monitoring of ambulatory blood pressure, we compared 2 psychological interventions with treatment using a first-line antihypertensive drug in terms of their efficacy in lowering blood pressure in patients with mild primary hypertension. ...

INTRODUCTION Ambulatory blood pressure monitors have been used in salt loading and depletion protocols. However, the agreement between measurements made using ambulatory blood pressure monitors and those made with the sphygmomanometer has not been evaluated. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to compare the concordance of the two methods of blood pressure measurements in protocols of a...

To evaluate the initial implementation effectiveness of an ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) protocol based on provider perception through survey and assesses its fidelity, adoption, impact in academic outpatient clinic.

Twenty-four hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is a valuable tool in the pediatric and adolescent population with type 1 diabetes. It provides useful information not readily available from sporadic clinic blood pressure (BP) measurements and a more reliable estimation of the subject's BP over an extended period of time. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is gaining popularity wi...

BACKGROUND Patients with elevated clinic blood pressure and normal ambulatory blood pressure have a better prognosis than patients with sustained ambulatory hypertension, and may not have to be treated with antihypertensive drugs. On the contrary, current guidelines emphasize repeated clinic blood pressure measurements for the initiation of antihypertensive therapy. OBJECTIVE To examine the r...