| Autor: |
Natalie A. Bello, Joseph E. Schwartz, Ian M. Kronish, Suzanne Oparil, D. Edmund Anstey, Ying Wei, Ying Kuen K. Cheung, Paul Muntner, Daichi Shimbo |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2018 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, Vol 7, Iss 20 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2047-9980 |
| DOI: |
10.1161/JAHA.118.008658 |
| Popis: |
Background Obtaining out‐of‐clinic blood pressure (BP) measurements to confirm a diagnosis of hypertension is recommended before initiating treatment. There are few empiric data available on the number of measurements required to reliably estimate BP on home BP monitoring (HBPM). Methods and Results We analyzed data from 316 community‐dwelling adults not taking antihypertensive medication from the IDH (Improving the Detection of Hypertension) study who performed HBPM for 14 days. The reliability of home BP measurements was assessed using the intraclass correlation coefficient and as the percentage of participants with an absolute difference in home BP |
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