Diagnostic use of ambulary blood pressure monitoring in medical practice.
This paper covers the use of a long-term, ambulatory, indirect blood pressure monitoring device in a series of sequentially selected, consenting patients exhibiting an office blood pressure of 140/90 mmGh or greater. Of the 62 patients reported, 32 percent were found to have randomly elevated pressures neither requiring treatment or labeling as hypertensive. The Pressurometer III (Del Mar Avionics) offers a major improvement in the diagnosis of hypertension.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D012648:Self Care