Home monitoring of blood glucose and blood pressure levels can provide patients and physicians with valuable information in the management of diabetes mellitus and hypertension. Home monitoring allows patients to play an active role in their care and may improve treatment adherence and clinical outcomes. Glucose meters currently on the market produce results within 15 percent of serum blood glu...

M easurement of blood pressure outside of the clinic is recognized for providing superior accuracy in predicting future fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular and renal disease. The gold standard for these predictions is 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring that measures daytime and night-time pressures. 1 Home blood pressure monitoring has rapidly made progress because devices for recording...

Recently there have been great advances in the use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in children. A major boost has been the publication of normative data for blood pressure in children. ABPM has been able to detect significant differences in blood pressure in many disease states including chronic renal failure, polycystic kidney disease and post renal transplantation and has helpe...

Forty three children with diabetes were recruited to evaluate home blood pressure monitoring using an electronic oscillometric sphygmomanometer (Philips HP5330). This device was found to be simple to use and reliable. It fulfilled the accuracy criteria of the American Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation for both systolic and diastolic blood pressure and those of the Briti...

In 2008 the first set of consensus recommendations for performance and interpretation of 24 hours Arterial Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) in children and adolescents have been published [1]. Since then, ABPM has found increasing use in pediatrics. These recommendations have been updated in 2014 [2]. For this reason the Group of Hypertension Study of the Italian Society of Pediatrics (GISPER) ...

This report reviews the evidence for and against clinical use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) on a large scale. Such monitoring is supported by a number of data, among which is that the end-organ damage associated with hypertension correlates more with 24-h average blood pressure than with clinic blood pressure, the correlation becoming even closer with addition of blood pressure...

We have read with great interest the prospective study by Shah et al. [1] assessing the safety of short infusions of bevacizumab. The authors report similar rates of proteinuria and hypertension in patients receiving the standard infusion regimen (over 90, 60 then 30 min), compared with shorter administrations with an infusion rate of 0.5 mg/kg/min. Although we agree with Shah et al. that short...

Several papers have suggested that 24-hour average blood pressure (BP) is superior to office BP in relation to hypertension target organ damage. This review article will specifically address the evidence provided in this regard by either cross-sectional or longitudinal studies. It will also critically discuss the available data supporting the concept that not only 24-hour average BP values, but...

The incidence of hypertension is high in the elderly and is present in 2/3 of the patients older than 65 years. Prevalence can reach 90% in patients older than 80 years. The presence of isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) is characteristic of this population. However, the prevalence of hypertension by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is not well known. In this study, we analyzed the...