Why the study?
Does Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) improve the diagnosis of hypertension and assessment of cardiovascular risk compared to daytime office measurements in adults?
Population
Adults evaluated for hypertension and cardiovascular risk
Comparison
Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) vs Daytime office blood pressure measurements
Design
Guideline
Authors
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Prioritize ABPM with asleep SBP focus for CVD risk assessment now; confirms prognostic superiority and refines thresholds by sex and risk.
Does Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) improve the diagnosis of hypertension and assessment of cardiovascular risk compared to daytime office measurements in adults?
The 2013 guidelines recommend ABPM as the gold standard for diagnosing hypertension and assessing cardiovascular risk, emphasizing the prognostic superiority of asleep blood pressure over office measurements.
Hermida et al. (2013) studied this question.
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