Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring for Clinical Applications and Basic Science

Authors

CORNELISSEN Germaine GIERKE Cathy Lee WATANABE Yoshihiko BEATY Larry A. SIEGELOVÁ Jarmila DELCOURT Alain DERUYCK Christian SINGH Ram B. REVILLA Miguel A. OTSUKA Kuniaki

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source World Heart Journal
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Field Other medical specializations
Keywords Bland-Altman plot; circadian; daily sphygmochrons; day-to-day variability; individualized chronotherapy; vascular variability disorders
Description Monitoring for spans longer then 24 hours, prefably for 7 days at the outset, has been advocated to obtain more reliable estimates of the circadian characteristics of blood pressure and heart rate. Herein, using data from a chronotherapy tria, we adress the desirability of complementing the global analysis of the entire record by the computation of daily sphygmochrons to gain a better assessment of the day-to-day variability in the circadian patterns of these variables.

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