Usefulness of ambulatory blood pressure measurement for hypertension management in India: the India ABPM study.

ABSTRACT: The present paper reports differences between office blood pressure (BP) measurement (OBPM) and ambulatory blood pressure measurement (ABPM) in a large multi-centre Indian all comers' population visiting primary care physicians. ABPM and OBPM data from 27,472 subjects (aged 51?±?14 years, males 68.2%, treated 45.5%) were analysed and compared. Patients were classified based on the following hypertension thresholds: systolic BP (SBP)???140 and/or diastolic BP?(DBP)??90?mmHg for OBPM, and SBP???130 and/or DBP???80?mmHg for 24-h ABPM, and SBP???120 and/or DBP???70?mmHg for night-time ABPM and SBP???135 and/or DBP???85?mmHg for daytime ABPM, all together. White coat hypertension (WCH) was seen in 12.0% (n?=?3304), masked hypertension (MH) in 19.3% (n?=?5293) and 55.5% (n?=?15,246) had sustained hypertension. Isolated night-time hypertension (INH) was diagnosed in 11.9% (n?=?3256). Untreated subjects had MH relatively more often than treated subjects (23.0% vs. 14.8%, p?

SUBMITTER: Kaul U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7299842 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature