Reliable Hypertension Diagnosis Based on 24 ABPM

Hasselt University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Arterial Hypertension

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: 24 h ambulatory blood pressure measurements

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03674918

24 ABPM001

Details and patient eligibility

About

24 h blood pressure monitoring can help to define which is the optimal timing and frequency of measurements

Full description

Hypertension is a common condition in modern society. As blood pressure fluctuates with time, a single blood pressure measurement is useless to diagnose hypertension. Nevertheless, a questionable not well-defined number of measurements still is often used for this purpose. Diagnosis and therapeutic control of hypertension are therefore suboptimal. This study's objective is to determine the number and timing of measurements needed to give a trustworthy approximation of an individual's average blood pressure. Therefore, 24 h ambulatory blood pressure measurements were retrospectively analyzed.

Enrollment: 408 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 70 per cent of valid measurements

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

408 participants in 1 patient group

persons with arterial hypertension

Description:

patients referred to consultation cardiology for hypertension. They get a 24 h blood pressure monitoring to define the exact mean arterial blood pressure

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: 24 h ambulatory blood pressure measurements