AMBULATORY BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING: A NON-INVASIVE GOLD STANDARD FOR HYPERTENSIVE THERAPY
AbstractBlood pressure (BP) is one of the major prognostic indicators in cardiovascular patients and in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Accurate measurement of BP is important to classify an individual to confirm BP related risk and to continue treatment. The limitations of conventional technique can be surpassed by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM). ABPM strengthens its superiority towards clinical BP measurement in point of its high reproducibility, high cost-effectiveness, assessment of white coat hypertension, provides multiple BP measurements. This review highlights ABPM technique and covers a brief introduction about hypertension, measurement of BP by 24-hr ABPM, clinical indications in various areas, ABPM device and its application thereby concluding that ABPM technique is superior both in terms of care and cost over conventional technique for diagnosis and treatment of hypertension.
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5073-5087
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English
IJPSR
P. Lakshmi Sirisha, G. Kishore Babu *, P. Srinivasa Babu and P. Koteswari
Department of pharmaceutics, Vignan Pharmacy College, Vadlamudi, A.P. India
kishorempharm@gmail.com
11 March, 2014
24 June, 2014
11 August, 2014
http://dx.doi.org/10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.5(12).5073-87
01 December 2014
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