Low Concordance Between Blood Pressures Measured in Periodic Health Examinations and in a Workplace-Based Hypertension Management Program.

ABSTRACT: Poor adherence to standard protocols of blood pressure (BP) measurement in routine clinical practice leads to higher readings than "research-quality" measurements. Whether this phenomenon exists in periodic health examinations was unknown. We aimed to explore the concordance between BP measurements in periodic health examinations and those measured following a standard measurement protocol. We used data from the Kailuan Study, an ongoing longitudinal cohort study in China, of which participants received biennial health examinations in health management centers. In addition, BPs were measured following standard protocols in a workplace-based hypertension management program nested in the Kailuan Study. We compared BP readings of the same person between the two settings using generalized line

SUBMITTER: Chen JX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9712859 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature