Open AccessCentral systolic blood pressure (cSBP) to brachial systolic blood pressure (brachSBP) ratio reproducibility during antihypertensive therapy
Author(s) -
J Bulas,
Mária Potočárová,
J Murı́n,
Soňa Wimmerová,
Ľudovít Gašpar,
L Turecký,
Eva Kováčová,
Viera Kupčová
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
bratislavské lekárske listy/bratislava medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1336-0345
pISSN - 0006-9248
DOI - 10.4149/bll_2021_111
Subject(s) - reproducibility , blood pressure , medicine , cardiology , mathematics , statistics
Higher CSBP than brachial SBP in individual patient increases cardiovascular (CV) risk. For follow-up it is important to assess the reproducibility of such measurements. The aim of this study was to assess the reproducibility of these differences, expressed as a CSBP/BrachSBP ratios.