SynthesisBlood pressure monitoring2011
Age and the difference between awake ambulatory blood pressure and office blood pressure: a meta-analysis.
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- Persistence and determinants of blood pressure phenotypes according to office and ambulatory blood pressure measurements in youth.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2023Article
- Hypertension-mediated organ damage in masked hypertension.Journal of hypertension · 2022Article
- Blood Pressure Control Among Older Adults With Hypertension: Narrative Review and Introduction of a Framework for Improving Care.American journal of hypertension · 2021Review
- Effect of Intensive and Standard Clinic-Based Hypertension Management on the Concordance Between Clinic and Ambulatory Blood Pressure and Blood Pressure Variability in SPRINT.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2019Article
- Rationale for Ambulatory and Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Thresholds in the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guideline.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2019Article
- Clinic Blood Pressure Underestimates Ambulatory Blood Pressure in an Untreated Employer-Based US Population: Results From the Masked Hypertension Study.Circulation · 2016Article
- Relationship between office and home blood pressure with increasing age: The International Database of HOme blood pressure in relation to Cardiovascular Outcome (IDHOCO).Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2016Article
- Masked Hypertension and Incident Clinic Hypertension Among Blacks in the Jackson Heart Study.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2016Article
- The Utility of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring for Diagnosing White Coat Hypertension in Older Adults.Current hypertension reports · 2015Review
- Rates, amounts, and determinants of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring claim reimbursements among Medicare beneficiaries.Journal of the American Society of Hypertension : JASH · 2014Article
- Age-specific differences between conventional and ambulatory daytime blood pressure values.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundAmbulatory blood pressure (BP) (ABP) is a better predictor of adverse cardiovascular events than office BP (OBP). Owing to the extensive literature on the 'white coat effect', it is widely believed that ABP tends to be lower than OBP, with statements to this effect in Joint National Committee VII. However, recent evidence suggests that the difference varies systematically with age.
methodsWe searched PubMed to identify population studies, published before April 2009, which assessed OBP and either ABP or home BP (HBP). On account of significant heterogeneity in the outcomes, random effect models were used for the meta-analyses.
resultsOBP increased with age more steeply than awake ABP. OBP became higher than awake systolic/diastolic ABP at the age of 51.3/42.7 years in men (13 studies, N=3562) and 51.9/42.3 years in women (11 studies, N=2585). In the data in which OBP and HBP were measured (eight studies, N=4916), OBP was higher than HBP at all ages. In the data in which OBP, awake ABP, and HBP were all measured (two studies, N=895), awake ABP was higher than HBP at younger ages, becoming similar at the older age.
conclusionOBP tends to be higher than awake ABP only after the age of 50 years for systolic and after the age of 45 years for diastolic BP, but is lower than ABP at younger ages; in contrast OBP tends to exceed HBP at all ages.
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