Reproducibility of sequential ambulatory blood pressure and pulse wave velocity measurements in normotensive and hypertensive individuals.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Errors in blood pressure (BP) measurement account for a large proportion of misclassified hypertension diagnoses. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is often considered to be the gold standard for measurement of BP, but uncertainty remains regarding the degree of measurement error. The aim of this study was to determine reproducibility of sequential ABPM in a population of normotensive and well controlled hypertensive individuals.

Methods

Individual participant data from three randomized controlled trials, which had recorded ABPM and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) at least twice were combined ( n  = 501). We calculated within-individual variability of daytime and night-time BP and compared the variability between normotensive ( n  = 324) and hyp

SUBMITTER: Keehn L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9640295 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature