title: Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring: A Complementary Strategy for Hypertension Diagnosis and Management in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries.
abstract: Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) can assess out-of-clinic blood pressure. ABPM is an underutilized resource in low-income and middle-income countries but should be considered a complementary strategy to clinic blood pressure measurement for the diagnosis and management of hypertension. Potential uses for ABPM in low-income and middle-income countries include screening of high-risk individuals who have concurrent communicable diseases, such as HIV, and in task-shifting health care strategies.
authors.affiliation: Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, 622 West 168th Street, PH 9-321, New York, NY 10032, USA. Electronic address: ma2947@cumc.columbia.edu.
authors.forename: Marwah
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abdalla
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000592:standards*; D003906:Developing Countries; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D015994:Incidence; D011203:Poverty; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; Low-income and middle-income countries; Resource-constrained