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3248698

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-6-23
pubmed:abstractText
Short-term blood pressure variability has been studied extensively with monitoring techniques. To assess whether or not and to what extent average 24-hour blood pressure varies when repeatedly recorded, 12 mild to moderate hypertensive subjects underwent 3 non-invasive blood pressure monitorings at monthly intervals. When the average 24-hour blood pressure of the whole group was evaluated no substantial differences were found between the 3 recordings, even though slightly lower blood pressure values were recorded at the first monitoring. However, when the within-period comparison was studied in the single patients, remarkable discrepancies of up to 20.9/15.8 mmHg were detected. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure variations greater than or equal to 5 mmHg were recorded in 58% of the subjects. These differences were unrelated to the number of faulty readings. Casual blood pressure varied even to a greater extent between the first and the subsequent visits; no correlation was found between casual and 24-hour blood pressure variations. The results of the present study indicate that ambulatory blood pressure may vary even to a great extent when repeatedly recorded. This finding entails important clinical implications, as the evaluation of the hypertensive patient is usually made with a single blood pressure monitoring.
pubmed:language
ita
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0046-5968
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
18
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
926-33
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
[Reproducibility of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring].
pubmed:affiliation
Clinica Medica I, Università di Padova.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, English Abstract