Cincinnati, OH - The American Heart Association (AHA) is recommending ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) for certain children and adolescents suspected of having high blood pressure. In a ...

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is increasingly used for the diagnosis of hypertension, including white-coat hypertension, 1 and assessment of blood pressure (BP) control. It is more ...

Halifax, NS - An observational study reported at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2001 in Halifax, Nova Scotia has found "white-coat" effects on blood pressure (BP) readings - when a patient's BP ...

Patients suspected of having high blood pressure are to be given home monitoring devices over fears millions have been misdiagnosed because they were simply nervous in the doctor's surgery. About a ...

GPs could be paid an incentive to use ambulatory blood pressure readings to confirm all new diagnoses of hypertension, under NICE proposals for a new QOF indicator set out yesterday. The NICE Primary ...

The big one is hypertension diagnosis following ABPM. This is likely to involve a major capital investment in practices and take significant time from both practices and patients. This will need a ...