Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring gives a more representative blood pressure profile
than office blood pressure measurements and is free of any placebo effect. It is therefore …

Recent multicenter trials have demonstrated that, in hypertensive elderly people, blood
pressure control can significantly decrease the rate of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular …

Clinic versus ambulatory blood pressure measurement: Clinic blood pressure
measurements do not give the best estimate of the efficacy of antihypertensive drugs …

Spontaneous differences in blood pressure from one clinic visit to another inevitably lead to
the use of unnecessarily high doses of drugs in the treatment of hypertension and to …

EVALUATION OF A SMOOTH BLOOD PRESSURE RESPONSE TO TREATMENT: Smooth
or uniform blood pressure control is an obvious goal of antihypertensive therapy, but it is …

Ambulatory monitoring of blood pressure can improve clinical trials in two ways, first, by the
identification and exclusion of those patients in whom the blood pressure is raised only in …

Objective: To assess the reproducibility of average hourly blood pressure values obtained
by 24-h non-invasive ambulatory monitoring. Patients: Fifteen outpatients with essential …

A low-cost, ambulatory blood-pressure monitor has been calibrated and validated against a
random zero sphygmomanometer. The repeatability of ambulatory pressure recordings after …

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring essentially estimates the average value of systolic
and diastolic pressure from readings that fluctuate with mental and physical activity …

Until a few years ago, only casual blood pressure measurements were used in the diagnosis
and treatment of arterial hypertension in clinical practice and in pharmacological studies …