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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in daily practice

Abdulhalim Jamal Kinsara1

  • 1King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, COM-J, King Abdul Aziz Medical City-WR, King Faisal Cardiac Center, Mail Code 6599, P.O. Box 9515, Jeddah 21423, Saudi Arabia.

Indian Heart Journal
|November 28, 2017
PubMed

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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is an underutilized yet cost-effective tool for diagnosing and predicting patient outcomes. Guidelines emphasize its importance, but community physicians rarely use it.

Area of Science:

  • Cardiology
  • Clinical Diagnostics
  • Preventive Medicine

Background:

  • Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is a valuable diagnostic method.
  • Physicians in community settings underutilize ABPM.
  • Clinical guidelines recommend ABPM for its diagnostic and prognostic capabilities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight the underutilization of ABPM in community practice.
  • To emphasize the cost-effectiveness and prognostic value of ABPM.
  • To encourage greater adoption of ABPM by community physicians.

Main Methods:

  • Review of current clinical guidelines and practice patterns.
  • Analysis of the diagnostic and prognostic utility of ABPM.
  • Assessment of cost-effectiveness of ABPM compared to other methods.

Main Results:

  • ABPM is a cost-effective tool for blood pressure assessment.
  • ABPM provides significant diagnostic and prognostic information.
  • Despite recommendations, ABPM is underutilized by community physicians.

Conclusions:

  • Increased utilization of ABPM by community physicians is warranted.
  • ABPM offers substantial benefits for patient diagnosis and prognosis.
  • Further education and implementation strategies are needed to promote ABPM use.

Keywords:
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoringBlood pressure measurementHypertension

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