Open AccessThe Dilemma of Nocturnal Blood Pressure
Author(s) -
Xu Tan,
Zhang YongQing,
Tan XueRui
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the journal of clinical hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1751-7176
pISSN - 1524-6175
DOI - 10.1111/jch.12003
Subject(s) - medicine , nocturnal , blood pressure , dilemma , greenwich , intensive care medicine , philosophy , environmental science , epistemology , soil science
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) . 2012;14:787–791. ©2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. During the past decades, blood pressure (BP) measurement technique has evolved rapidly from the traditionally manual measuring to fully automatic monitoring. In terms of management of BP, there have been tremendous changes from the controlling of daytime BP, nondipping pattern to nocturnal BP (NBP). Since the focus has turned to NBP, a number of dilemmas of NBP measurement have gradually emerged in clinical practice and research settings, including methods for monitoring NBP, different period definition of nocturnal time, different diagnostic thresholds of abnormal NBP, whether to control abnormal NBP, and how to manage abnormal NBP. Currently, these issues have hindered progress in the appropriate management of hypertensive patients. Therefore, the purpose of this review is to concisely discuss the dilemmas of NBP.