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Clin. Exp. Hypertens. · Apr 1996
ReviewAmbulatory blood pressure, blood pressure variability and antihypertensive treatment.
- G Mancia and S Omboni.
- Cattedra di Medicina Interna, Ospedale S. Gerardo, Monza, Italy.
- Clin. Exp. Hypertens. 1996 Apr 1; 18 (3-4): 449-62.
AbstractAmbulatory blood pressure monitoring is frequently employed in the clinical practice to improve the diagnosis of hypertension and the appropriateness of the decision regarding initiation of antihypertensive treatment. It is also frequently employed to check the efficacy of this treatment in conditions resembling daily life. This paper will describe the effect of a number of antihypertensive drugs on ambulatory blood pressure, based on data collected by our group in the past 10 years. It will then discuss the advantages of ambulatory blood pressure in studies of efficacy of antihypertensive drugs and the importance of this approach for definition of the trough-to-peak ratio of the antihypertensive effect. Some technical and clinical problems inherent to the ambulatory blood pressure monitoring approach will also be discussed.
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