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Continuous recording of blood pressure in cerebrovascular disease: when should it be done?

Javier Tejada1, Luís Hernández-Echebarría, Beatriz Ballesteros

  • 1Section of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital de León, León, Spain. jtejada@hleo.insalud.es

Cerebrovascular Diseases (Basel, Switzerland)
|December 25, 2003
PubMed

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Ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring aids hypertension management and cerebrovascular event prevention. Continuous BP recording offers prognostic value for stroke development and recovery, especially in elderly patients.

Area of Science:

  • Cardiology
  • Neurology
  • Hypertension Research

Background:

  • Hypertension (HT) poses risks to target organs, including the brain.
  • Ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring is indicated for hypertension management.
  • Cerebrovascular processes are susceptible to HT-related vascular damage.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review the utility of continuous BP recording in cerebrovascular disease (CVD).
  • To assess the prognostic value of BP patterns in CVD development and recovery.
  • To examine BP patterns across different stroke subtypes and patient demographics.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic review of published articles from the Medline database.
  • Analysis of studies investigating continuous BP recording in CVD.
  • Inclusion of research on BP patterns in subjects with and without prior CVD.

Main Results:

  • BP patterns correlate with stroke risk in various populations, including essential hypertension patients (adults and elderly).
  • Continuous BP monitoring provides prognostic insights into silent and symptomatic CVD.
  • BP monitoring is significant for functional recovery prediction post-stroke.

Conclusions:

  • BP monitoring is valuable for managing pathological BP variations in hypertensive patients.
  • The technique is particularly useful in elderly patients due to impaired cerebral circulation regulation.
  • Circadian rhythm of BP is crucial for primary and secondary prevention of cerebrovascular events.
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