Open AccessRoutine Use of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Potential Living Kidney Donors
Author(s) -
Elizabeth S. Ommen,
Bernd Schröppel,
Jin Yon Kim,
Gabrielle Gaspard,
Enver Akalin,
Graciella de Boccardo,
Vinita Sehgal,
Michael S. Lipkowitz,
Barbara Murphy
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
clinical journal of the american society of nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1555-905X
pISSN - 1555-9041
DOI - 10.2215/cjn.01240307
Subject(s) - medicine , masked hypertension , ambulatory , white coat hypertension , ambulatory blood pressure , blood pressure , prospective cohort study , prehypertension , pediatrics , intensive care medicine
Most transplant centers exclude prospective living kidney donors with hypertension from donation. Centers routinely identify hypertension using BP measured in the clinic, but it is not clear that clinic BP accurately detects the presence or absence of hypertension in potential donors. We therefore conducted a prospective study to determine the impact of routine ambulatory BP monitoring on diagnosis of hypertension in potential donors and the value of other baseline characteristics in predicting ambulatory BP results.