Use of Different Blood Pressure Thresholds to Reduce the Number of Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Days Needed for Detecting Hypertension.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Home blood pressure (BP) monitoring over a 7-day period is recommended to confirm the diagnosis of hypertension.

Methods

We determined upper and lower home BP thresholds with >90% positive predictive value and >90% negative predictive value using 1 to 6 days of monitoring to identify high home BP (systolic BP ≥130 mm Hg or diastolic BP ≥80 mm Hg) based on 7 days of home BP monitoring. The sample included 361 adults from the Improving the Detection of Hypertension Study who were not taking antihypertensive medication. We used two 7-day periods, at least 3 days apart, the first being a sampling period and the second a reference period. For each number of days in the sampling period, we determined the percentage of participants who had a high likelihood of having (>9

SUBMITTER: Bradley CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10530450 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature