Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in atrial fibrillation.
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) devices are increasingly used in the assessment of hypertension, but patients with atrial fibrillation are usually excluded because device accuracy in this patient group is unproved. The present study investigates the clinical use of the Spacelabs 90207 oscillometric ABPM device in outpatients with chronic atrial fibrillation and suggests that such devices can be used in clinical practice to assess blood pressure in stable outpatients with chronic atrial fibrillation.
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University Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham, England.
Zarifis
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Beevers
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Beevers
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000503:physiopathology*; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002908:Chronic Disease; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged