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Does home blood pressure monitoring predict target organ damage better than ambulatory or office measurements in patients with hypertension?
Does home blood pressure monitoring predict target organ damage better than ambulatory or office measurements in patients with hypertension?
Home blood pressure monitoring is superior to office measurements and comparable to ambulatory monitoring for predicting left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertension.
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Supports home BP monitoring for routine risk stratification in hypertension; confirms its validity as an ambulatory equivalent.
These data suggest that home BP is as good as ambulatory monitoring and superior to office measurements in regard to their association with preclinical organ damage assessed by echocardiographic LVMI. More research is required to evaluate the relationship of home BP with other indices of target organ damage.
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Bliziotis et al. (2012) studied this question.
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