A novel approach to office blood pressure measurement: 30-minute office blood pressure vs daytime ambulatory blood pressure.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Current office blood pressure measurement (OBPM) is often not executed according to guidelines and cannot prevent the white-coat effect. Serial, automated, oscillometric OBPM has the potential to overcome both these problems. We therefore developed a 30-minute OBPM method that we compared with daytime ambulatory blood pressure.

Methods

Patients referred to a primary care diagnostic center for 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) had their blood pressure measured using the same validated ABPM device for both ABPM and 30-minute OBPMs. During 30-minute OBPM, blood pressure was measured automatically every 5 minutes with the patient sitting alone in a quiet room. The mean 30-minute OBPM (based on t = 5 to t = 30 minutes) was compared with mean daytime ABPM

SUBMITTER: van der Wel MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3056860 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature