title: [Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: essential for diagnosing and treating hypertension?].
abstract: According to recent international guidelines, 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring plays an important role in the diagnostic and therapeutic approach of arterial hypertension. Indications of this technique are multiple, concerning both day- and night-time blood pressures. Blood pressures provided by ambulatory monitoring may be used to stratify cardiovascular risk.
authors.affiliation: Division de physiopathologie clinique, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne. bernard.waeber@chuv.ch
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Waeber
authors.affiliation: Service de néphrologie, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne.
authors.forename: Grégoire
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wuerzner
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D059468:Masked Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis; D012016:Reference Values; D059466:White Coat Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Hypertension. L'enregistrement tensionnel en ambulatoire: indispensable pour diagnostiquer et traiter l'hypertension?