Role of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in elderly hypertensive patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Arterial hypertension is facing some changes in the last years. Its prevalence is increasing in elderly subjects. This growing prevalence is due to longer survival of the population worldwide, among other factors. On the other hand, recent guidelines have insisted in the relevance of out of office blood pressure measurements, to improve diagnostic and management of hypertension. Therefore, elderly subjects with hypertension could benefit from out of office blood pressure measurements, like ambulatory blood pressure measurements; nevertheless, there are very few or no specific recommendations regarding this.

Aim

In this review, we will gather the most important information about this subject.

Results

As hypertension in the elderly has some specific character

SUBMITTER: Camafort M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9248111 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature