title: [Automatic non-ambulatory measurement of arterial pressure. Computer data-analysis of the evaluation of antihypertensive treatment].
abstract: To gain a better understanding of the therapeutic effect of HTA, the present study reports a new method essentially based on the non invasive non ambulatory monitoring of blood pressure by the Dinamap 845. This apparatus was initially assayed towards the measure of invasive blood pressure and by the auscultatory method, and afterwards towards the analysis of approximately one hundred resulting data. The computer analysis of the data was performed using a microcomputer which gives the results as: time dependent curves over 24 hr; histograms, percentage of the values of HTA (above 140 mmHg for the systolic and 90 mmHg for the diastolic one); numeric data such as: average values, SEM... The method reported here appears to be convenient to follow new therapeutic treatment because the data obtained before and after treatment proved to be more rigorous and less varying upon the physician. This kind of investigation seems also helpful in the case of both hypertensive emergencies and treatment of those HTA which are difficult to stabilize. But it is thought to be not easily applied to all the hypertensions studied in the usual medical practise.
mesh_terms: D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000379:methods*; D003201:Computers; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods
vernacular_title: Mesure automatique non ambulatoire de la pression artérielle. Analyse informatique des données pour l'appréciation d'un traitement hypotenseur.