Open AccessAmbulatory Blood Pressure Profiles and Correlation with Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Sample of 390 University Employees in Tanzania
Author(s) -
Godfrey Chuwa,
Pilly Chillo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
integrated blood pressure control
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.652
H-Index - 20
ISSN - 1178-7104
DOI - 10.2147/ibpc.s280763
Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , ambulatory blood pressure , logistic regression , risk factor , ambulatory , white coat hypertension , cardiology , diastole
Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Increasingly, evidence suggests that 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring (ABPM) is more accurate than clinic BP in predicting cardiovascular risk. However, this association has not been widely studied in subSaharan Africa, especially in Tanzania.