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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-12-6
pubmed:abstractText
Whereas clinic blood pressure (CBP) above normality is divided into stages, no corresponding classifications are available for 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure (ABP). We conducted a study (1) to define stages of hypertension by ABP corresponding to CBP stages and (2) to evaluate if these stages have prognostic impact similar to CBP stages. Seven hundred thirty-six hypertensive patients were included. Mean systolic blood pressure was 149+/-15.2/87+/-8.6 mm Hg for CBP and 135+/-13/79+/-9.7 mm Hg for ABP. The mean bias between both methods was -13.3 mm Hg (95% CI, -14.3 to -12.2; 1.96xSD limits of agreement, 15.7 to -42.3) and -7.3 mm Hg (95% CI, -7.9 to -6.6; 1.96xSD limits of agreement, 9.8 to -24.3) for systolic and diastolic blood pressure (P>0.0001 for both), respectively. Classification of hypertension by ABP revealed lower cutoff values for the different stages of hypertension compared with the corresponding cutoff values for CBP (CBP versus ABP: 140/90 versus 132/81 mm Hg; 160/100 versus 140/88 mm Hg; 180/110 versus 148/94 mm Hg, P<0.001). Overall, 82 (11.1%) patients had nonfatal clinical cardiovascular events and 9 (1.2%) patients died of a cardiovascular cause during follow-up. The distribution of cardiovascular events was significantly associated with increasing ABP value (P<0.006). Staging of hypertension by ABP may facilitate the use of this method in daily clinical practice, as ABP can now be used not only to confirm the diagnosis of hypertension but also to assess the severity and prognosis of hypertensive disease.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1524-4563
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
40
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
817-22
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Age Distribution, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Austria, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Blood Pressure, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Cardiovascular Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Comorbidity, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Drug Therapy, Combination, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Female, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Follow-Up Studies, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Hypertension, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Incidence, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Male, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Predictive Value of Tests, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Prognosis, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Severity of Illness Index, pubmed-meshheading:12468563-Treatment Outcome
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Classification of blood pressure levels by ambulatory blood pressure in hypertension.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article