Reliability in patient-reported ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
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Ambulatory blood-pressure monitoring.
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is becoming widely accepted as a clinically useful tool for assessing cardiovascular risk in hypertensive patients, although it is not generally recognized for reimbursement in the United States. There are now six major prospective studies, all of which have shown that ABPM gives a better prediction of risk than conventional clinic measurement. A coro...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(96)82340-0