Epidemiology of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.
An operational threshold for making clinical decisions on the basis of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring must be defined [1-3]. This requires that the relationship between the ambulatory blood pressure and the incidence of cardiovascular complications be clarified beyond present understanding [4-7]. In addition, the distribution of the ambulatory blood pressure must be characterized better under various conditions and for various populations and compared with the centrality and spread of the conventional blood pressure under similar circumstances.
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Hypertension and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Unit, Department of Cardiovascular and Molecular Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.