Key result
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring correlates more strongly with end-organ damage than office blood pressure and has a potentially useful role in monitoring treatment in elderly hypertensive patients.
Why the study?
Does ambulatory blood pressure monitoring correlate more strongly with end-organ damage and prognosis than office blood pressure in elderly hypertensive patients?
Does ambulatory blood pressure monitoring correlate more strongly with end-organ damage and prognosis than office blood pressure in elderly hypertensive patients?
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is highlighted as a potentially useful tool for monitoring antihypertensive treatment in elderly patients due to its stronger correlation with end-organ damage compared to office measurements.
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May support ambulatory monitoring over office readings in elderly hypertension; leaves open randomized outcome trials before practice change.
G. Mancia (2000) conducted a review in Hypertension in elderly patients. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) vs. Office blood pressure was evaluated. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring correlates more strongly with end-organ damage than office blood pressure and has a potentially useful role in monitoring treatment in elderly hypertensive patients.
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