title: Measurement of the ankle brachial index with a non-mercury sphygmomanometer in diabetic patients: a concordance study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The removal of mercury sphygmomanometers from health centers requires the validation of other instruments to measure blood pressure in the limbs to calculate the ankle-brachial index (ABI).
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive cross-sectional study of agreement between two measurement methods in type 2 diabetes patients from three urban primary healthcare centres in the Barcelonès Nord i Maresme area (Catalonia, Spain).
  
  
  RESULTS
  211 patients were included, from these, 421 limbs were available for study. The mean age of the participants was 67 years (SD = 10), 51.7% were women.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The combination of a Doppler device with the hybrid sphygmomanometer is a simple and reliable method to measure ABI showing that hybrid sphygmomanometer is a good alternative to the use of mercury sphygmomanometers.
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bundó
authors.forename: Magali
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Urrea
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Muñoz-Ortíz
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pérez
authors.forename: Judit
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Llussà
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Forés
authors.forename: María Teresa
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Alzamora
authors.forename: Pere
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Torán
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D055109:Ankle Brachial Index / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D058729:Peripheral Arterial Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D019722:Sphygmomanometers / Q000592:standards*