The journal of clinical hypertension
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J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) · Nov 2017
Diagnostic accuracy of a new algorithm to detect atrial fibrillation in a home blood pressure monitor.
The authors evaluated a new algorithm for detecting atrial fibrillation (AF) using a home blood pressure monitor. Three serial blood pressure values were measured by the monitor in 16 patients with AF and 20 patients with sinus rhythm. ⋯ The monitor's AF specificity was 1.0 in IPP25, IPP20, and IPP15, and its sensitivity was 0.88 in IPP25, 0.94 in IPP20, and 1.0 in IPP15. The new algorithm had high diagnostic accuracy for detecting AF and a low false-positive rate.