title: Twenty four hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: a new tool for determining cardiovascular prognosis.
abstract: Twenty four hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (24-H ABPM) plays an important part in the management of subjects with suspected and confirmed disorders of blood pressure regulation. This article reviews the prognostic significance of various aspects of the 24-H ABPM and describes the authors experience in Chesterfield. Over the course of 12 month period from 1 August 2002, 1264 subjects had 24-ABPM. A total of 1187 (93.91%) subjects were included in this study, with mean age of 59.30 years and male:female ratio was 46%: 54 %. Fifty two (4.38%) of the subjects had all of the seven features associated with an adverse prognosis. Only 82 (6.90%) subjects had none of the seven adverse prognostic features with the remainder having one or more adverse prognostic features.
authors.affiliation: Chesterfield Hypertension Clinic, Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Hospital, Calow, Chesterfield S44 5BL, UK.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Madin
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Iqbal
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000379:methods*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000401:mortality* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis