Postpartum ambulatory and home blood pressure monitoring in women with history of preeclampsia: Diagnostic agreement and detection of masked hypertension.

ABSTRACT: Women with a history of preeclampsia (hxPE) are at a four-fold higher risk for chronic hypertension after pregnancy compared with healthy pregnancy, but 'masked' hypertension cases are missed by clinical assessment alone. Twenty-four hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is the reference-standard for confirmation of hypertension diagnoses or detection of masked hypertension outside of clinical settings, whereas home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) may represent a well-tolerated and practical alternative to ABPM in the postpartum period. The objectives of this study were to 1) assess concordance between ABPM and HBPM postpartum in women with a hxPE compared with healthy pregnancy controls and 2) evaluate HBPM in the detection of masked postpartum hypertension. Young women with a

SUBMITTER: Nuckols VR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9645805 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature