title: Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertension.
abstract: Clinicians should take initiatives to establish ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) services in their own practice, or to ensure that they have access to such services elsewhere. Whenever possible, ABPM should be performed in suitable cases, where it is likely to deliver clinically useful information for making a correct diagnosis, or for tailoring the anti-hypertensive treatment regimen for each individual patient. ABPM is clinically useful, among others, for identifying people with "masked normotension", "masked hypertension", "sleep-time hypertension", and "reduced decline of sleep-time blood pressure". This review briefly outlines the rationales for the use of ABPM, interpretations of the ABPM-derived parameters, and the advantages of ABPM in decision making in the management of hypertension.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Research Center, 3rd Floor, 118 83, Stockholm, Sweden. shahidul.islam@ki.se.|Department of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden. shahidul.islam@ki.se.
authors.forename: Md Shahidul
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Islam
mesh_terms: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects*; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000592:standards; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D059468:Masked Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012015:Reference Standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D059466:White Coat Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents
keywords: Dipping pattern; Hypertension in pregnancy; Isolated office hypertension; Non-dipper; Normal values for blood pressure; Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome; Resistant hypertension; White-coat effect; White-coat hypertension