title: [Current clinical aspects of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring].
abstract: Systemic arterial hypertension is the prevalentest disease worldwide that significantly increases cardiovascular risk. An early diagnosis together to achieve goals decreases the risk of complications significatly. Recently have been updated the diagnostic criteria for hypertension and the introduction of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. The introduction into clinical practice of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring was to assist the diagnosis of «white coat hypertension» and «masked hypertension». Today has also shown that ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is better than the traditional method of recording blood pressure in the office, to the diagnosis and to adequate control and adjustment of drug treatment. Also there have been introduced important new concepts such as isloted nocturnal hypertension, morning blood pressure elevation altered and altered patterns of nocturnal dip in blood pressure; which have been associated with increased cardiovascular risk. Several studies have shown significant prognostic value in some stocks. There are still other concepts on which further study is needed to properly establish their introduction to clinical practice as hypertensive load variability, pulse pressure and arterial stiffness. In addition to setting values according to further clinical studies in populations such as elderly and children.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Cardiología, Centro Médico American British Cowdray, Campus Santa Fe, México Distrito Federal, México. Electronic address: sauzamd@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Julio César
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Sauza-Sosa
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Hemodinámica, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología, México Distrito Federal, México.
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cuéllar-Álvarez
authors.affiliation: Universidad La Salle, Facultad Mexicana de Medicina, México Distrito Federal, México.
authors.forename: Karla Montserrat
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Villegas-Herrera
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Cardiología, Centro Médico American British Cowdray, Campus Santa Fe, México Distrito Federal, México.
authors.forename: Lilia Mercedes
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Sierra-Galán
mesh_terms: D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis*
keywords: Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; Arterial systemic hypertension; Hipertensión arterial nocturna aislada; Hipertensión arterial sistémica; Hipertensión de bata blanca; Hipertensión enmascarada; Isolated nocturnal hypertension; Masked hypertension; Mexico; Monitoreo ambulatorio de presión arterial; México; White coat hypertension