Home and Ambulatory Blood Pressure to Identify White Coat and Masked Hypertension in the Pediatric Patient
Author(s) -
Érika Arai Furusawa,
Ulysses Dória Filho,
Dinesh Yadav D.M.,
Vera Hermina Kalika Koch
Publication year - 2011
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.2011.72
Subject(s) - medicine , white coat hypertension , mcnemar's test , blood pressure , ambulatory blood pressure , masked hypertension , ambulatory , pediatrics , statistics , mathematics
To evaluate the effect of the environment and the observer on the measurement of blood pressure (BP) as well as to compare home BP (HBP) and ambulatory BP (ABP) measurements in the diagnosis of white coat hypertension (WCH) and masked hypertension (MH) in children and adolescents with hypertension (HT).
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