Why the study?
Does ambulatory and home blood pressure measurement improve the prediction of death compared to office blood pressure in the general population?
Does ambulatory and home blood pressure measurement improve the prediction of death compared to office blood pressure in the general population?
While home and ambulatory BP increases are associated with a steeper increase in mortality risk compared to office BP, their overall predictive ability for death is similar, though combining measurement methods offers slight improvement.
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Office BP remains adequate for mortality prediction; leaves open whether combined out-of-office measures add meaningful value beyond steeper per-mmHg associations.
Sega et al. (2005) studied this question.
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