ArticleJournal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)2014
Inter-arm blood pressure difference in hospitalized elderly patients--is it consistent?
Article in Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- [Interarm blood pressure difference: Concordance between two methods of automatic simultaneous measurement and between visits reproducibility].Atencion primaria · 2022Review
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- Correlating the relationship between interarm systolic blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk factors.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2017Article
- Between-visit reproducibility of inter-arm systolic blood pressure differences in treated hypertensive patients: the coconet study.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2017Article
- The interarm blood pressure difference: Do we know enough yet?Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2017Article
- Response to the Letter by Ozturk and Colleagues Entitled: "Inter-Arm Blood Pressure Differences May Be Important in Predicting Mortality".Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2016Article
- Inter-Arm Blood Pressure Differences May Be Important for Predicting Mortality.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2016Article
- Inter-Arm Blood Pressure Difference in Hospitalized Elderly Patients Is Not Associated With Excess Mortality.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2015Article
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Abstract
Inter-arm blood pressure difference (IAD) is recognized as a risk factor for cardiovascular mortality. Its reproducibility in the elderly is unknown. The authors determined the prevalence and reproducibility of IAD in hospitalized elderly patients. Blood pressure was measured simultaneously in both arms on two different days in elderly individuals hospitalized in a geriatric ward. The study included 364 elderly patients (mean age, 85±5 years). Eighty-four patients (23%) had systolic IAD >10 and 62 patients (17%) had diastolic IAD >10 mm Hg. A total of 319 patients had two blood pressure measurements. Systolic and diastolic IAD remained in the same category in 203 (64%) and 231 (72%) patients, respectively. Correlations of systolic and diastolic IAD between the two measurements were poor. Consistency was not affected by age, body mass index, comorbidities, or treatment. IAD is extremely common in hospitalized elderly patients, but, because of poor consistency, its clinical significance in this population is uncertain.
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