A chronically high blood pressure (BP) may lead to arteriosclerosis and consequently is a risk factor for apoplectic stroke and cardiac infarction – the main death causes in industrial countries. Hence, blood pressure recently has become one of the most relevant parameters for the assessment of a patients’ health status. For the purpose of a continuous monitoring of cardiovascular patients, we ...

Blood pressure (BP) is an important vital sign to determine the health of an individual. Although the estimation of average arterial blood pressure using oscillometric methods is possible, there are no established methods for obtaining confidence intervals (CIs) for systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP). In this paper, we propose a two-step pseudomaximum amplitude (TS...

BACKGROUND Different methods of measuring blood pressure (BP) have been used in clinical and scientific evaluations. However, the methods employed have constraints and peculiarities to be considered. OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether similar BP values are obtained in elderly hypertensive patients undergoing resistance exercises when using the oscillometric (Omron-HEM-431) and auscultatory methods...

This review describes issues for the estimation of pulse wave velocity (PWV) under ambulatory conditions using oscillometric systems. The difference between the principles of measuring the PWV by the standard method and by oscillometry is shown, and information on device validation studies is summarized. It was concluded that currently oscillometry is a method that is very convenient to use in ...

Self-monitoring of blood pressure may give a truer estimate of usual blood pressure than readings by a doctor in the surgery, and may save time for health professionals. This study aimed to determine the accuracy of self-monitoring in the surgery using a wrist oscillometric sphygmomanometer (Omron RX). One hundred and seventy-three patients were taught to record their own blood pressure with th...

OBJECTIVE: To identify normative blood pressure (BP) levels for Brazilian newborn infants and to define a cut-off point for high systolic and diastolic BP in this population.METHODS: 634 healthy term neonates, aged 12 to 36 hours, who were born in the Instituto Materno Infantil de Pernambuco (IMIP) were included in this survey. An oscillometric method was used to acess the neonates BP. To ident...