Open AccessBlood Pressure during Blood Collection and the Implication for Absolute Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
Author(s) -
Niamh Chapman,
Dean Picone,
Rachel E. Climie,
Martin Schultz,
Mark Nelson,
James E. Sharman
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
pulse
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2235-8676
pISSN - 2235-8668
DOI - 10.1159/000506646
Subject(s) - blood pressure , medicine , blood collection , absolute risk reduction , framingham heart study , framingham risk score , disease , confidence interval , emergency medicine
Blood collection and blood pressure (BP) measurements are routinely performed during the same consultation to assess absolute cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study aimed to determine the effect of blood collection on BP and subsequent calculation of the absolute CVD risk.