World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

ASSESSMENT OF BLOOD PRESSURE USING AMBULATORY BLOOD PRESSURE MONITOR

*Dr. Divya Gupta

ABSTRACT

The prevalence of high blood pressure (BP) is increasing these days. It is a very important risk factor for many diseases involving the cardiovascular system, renal system and neurological system. Usually the blood pressure of a person is measured routinely using the mercury sphygmomanometer and it is taken only once or twice. This reading of blood pressure is known as office or clinic blood pressure. But this casual blood pressure reading can not represent the whole day BP levels. Many of the patients can be misdiagnosed as hypertensives and many can be underdiagnosed. With recent advances, the use of ambulatory BP monitor (ABPM), which can measure the whole day and night BP levels, is becoming very important. The mean of the values recorded by ambulatory blood pressure monitor has a greater prognostic and therapeutic value as compared to the single clinic blood pressure value.

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