Diagnostic Performance of Blood Pressure Measurement Modalities in Living Kidney Donor Candidates.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Precise BP measurement to exclude hypertension is critical in evaluating potential living kidney donors. Ambulatory BP monitoring is considered the gold standard method for diagnosing hypertension, but it is cumbersome to perform. We sought to determine whether lower BP cutoffs using office and automated BP would reduce the rate of missed hypertension in potential living donors.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

We measured BP in 578 prospective donors using three modalities: (1) single office BP, (2) office automated BP (average of five consecutive automated readings separated by 1 minute), and (3) ambulatory BP. Daytime ambulatory BP was considered the gold standard for diagnosing hypertension. We assessed both the

SUBMITTER: Armanyous S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6500946 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature