Weekly Averaged Blood Pressure Is More Important than a Single-Point Blood Pressure Measurement in the Risk Stratification of Dialysis Patients
Author(s) -
Hidekazu Moriya,
Machiko Oka,
Kyoko Maesato,
Tsutomu Mano,
Ryota Ikee,
Takayasu Ohtake,
Shuzo Kobayashi
Publication year - 2008
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.03490807
Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , hemodialysis , cardiology , pulse pressure , dialysis , prehypertension
With regard to monitoring blood pressure in hemodialysis patients, it is important to define clearly the time point at which the blood pressure is measured, because the blood pressure of hemodialysis patients varies with each hemodialysis session as a result of loss of excess fluid.
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