Why the study?
Does 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring reveal differences compared to office blood pressure measurements across age and sex groups in a rural community?
Population
131 patients in a rural community nonacademic setting with more than two prior office diastolic BP…
Comparison
24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring… vs Office blood pressure measurements
Design
Cross-sectional
Follow-up
24 hours
Authors
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Office BP may overestimate ambulatory values in rural adults; leaves open need for sex-specific ABPM validation before changing diagnostic thresholds.
Does 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring reveal differences compared to office blood pressure measurements across age and sex groups in a rural community?
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in a nonacademic setting demonstrates that office BP readings are consistently higher than ABPM, with significant variations based on age and sex.
Khoury et al. (1992) studied this question.
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