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Is "Usual" Blood Pressure a Proxy for 24-h Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Predicting Cardiovascular Outcomes?
Author(s) -
Jerzy Gąsowski,
Y. Li,
Tatiana Kuznetsova,
T Richart,
Lutgarde Thijs,
Tomasz Grodzicki,
Robert Clarke,
Jan A. Staessen
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
american journal of hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 136
eISSN - 1941-7225
pISSN - 0895-7061
DOI - 10.1038/ajh.2008.231
Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , hazard ratio , ambulatory blood pressure , cardiology , quartile , proportional hazards model , ambulatory , endocrinology , confidence interval
The 24-h ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) is a stronger predictor of cardiovascular disease than conventional blood pressure (CBP), but it remains unclear how it compares with "usual" blood pressure (UBP), estimated after CBP has been corrected for regression dilution bias (RDB).

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