TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring on the diagnosis and cost of treatment for mild hypertension
AU - Krakoff, Lawrence R.
AU - Eison, Howard
AU - Phillips, Robert A.
AU - Leiman, Sander J.
AU - Steven, Lev
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1988
Y1 - 1988
N2 - Detection of mild hypertension by a small number of casual blood pressures may be inaccurate for the determination of average blood pressure. Nonetheless, casual pressures remain the basis for the diagnosis and treatment of hypertensive patients. We compared casual and noninvasive ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in a consecutive series of 60 subjects evaluated for possible mild hypertension on the basis of casual pressures. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring was performed on days of usual activity. Correlations between casual systolic and average ambulatory systolic pressures or casual diastolic and average ambulatory diastolic pressures were not significant. Nearly half of the subjects had average ambulatory systolic pressures
AB - Detection of mild hypertension by a small number of casual blood pressures may be inaccurate for the determination of average blood pressure. Nonetheless, casual pressures remain the basis for the diagnosis and treatment of hypertensive patients. We compared casual and noninvasive ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in a consecutive series of 60 subjects evaluated for possible mild hypertension on the basis of casual pressures. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring was performed on days of usual activity. Correlations between casual systolic and average ambulatory systolic pressures or casual diastolic and average ambulatory diastolic pressures were not significant. Nearly half of the subjects had average ambulatory systolic pressures
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U2 - 10.1016/0002-8703(88)90180-9
DO - 10.1016/0002-8703(88)90180-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 3177190
AN - SCOPUS:0023720621
SN - 0002-8703
VL - 116
SP - 1152
EP - 1154
JO - American Heart Journal
JF - American Heart Journal
IS - 4
ER -