Chapter title |
Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertension
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Chapter number | 177 |
Book title |
Hypertension: from basic research to clinical practice
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Published in |
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, January 2016
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DOI | 10.1007/5584_2016_177 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-944250-1, 978-3-31-944251-8
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Authors |
Md. Shahidul Islam |
Abstract |
Clinicians should take initiatives to establish ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) services in their own practice, or to ensure that they have access to such services elsewhere. Whenever possible, ABPM should be performed in suitable cases, where it is likely to deliver clinically useful information for making a correct diagnosis, or for tailoring the anti-hypertensive treatment regimen for each individual patient. ABPM is clinically useful, among others, for identifying people with "masked normotension", "masked hypertension", "sleep-time hypertension", and "reduced decline of sleep-time blood pressure". This review briefly outlines the rationales for the use of ABPM, interpretations of the ABPM-derived parameters, and the advantages of ABPM in decision making in the management of hypertension. |
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