Why the study?
Does 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring improve prognostic risk stratification compared to clinic blood pressure measurement in patients with essential hypertension?
Population
688 hypertensive patients who had undergone pretreatment 24-hour intra-arterial ambulatory blood pressure…
Comparison
24-hour intra-arterial ambulatory blood pressure… vs Baseline clinic blood pressure measurement.
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
9.2 +/- 4.4 years
Authors
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Supports ambulatory BP for risk stratification in hypertension; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Does 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring improve prognostic risk stratification compared to clinic blood pressure measurement in patients with essential hypertension?
Direct, continuous 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is superior to standard clinic blood pressure measurement for predicting long-term cardiovascular events and target organ damage in patients with essential hypertension.
Khattar et al. (2001) studied this question.
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