Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring to Diagnose and Manage Hypertension.

ABSTRACT: This review portrays how ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring was established and recommended as the method of choice for the assessment of BP and for the rational use of antihypertensive drugs. To establish much-needed diagnostic ambulatory BP thresholds, initial statistical approaches evolved into longitudinal studies of patients and populations, which demonstrated that cardiovascular complications are more closely associated with 24-hour and nighttime BP than with office BP. Studies cross-classifying individuals based on ambulatory and office BP thresholds identified white-coat hypertension, an elevated office BP in the presence of ambulatory normotension as a low-risk condition, whereas its counterpart, masked hypertension, carries a hazard almost as high as ambulatory combined wi

SUBMITTER: Huang QF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7803442 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature