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- Title
Home and Ambulatory Blood Pressure to Identify White Coat and Masked Hypertension in the Pediatric Patient.
- Authors
Furusawa, Érika A.; Filho, Ulysses D.; Junior, Décio Mion; Koch, Vera H.
- Abstract
ObjectiveTo evaluate the effect of the environment and the observer on the measurement of blood pressure (BP) as well as to compare home BP (HBP) and ambulatory BP (ABP) measurements in the diagnosis of white coat hypertension (WCH) and masked hypertension (MH) in children and adolescents with hypertension (HT).MethodsBP of 40 patients with HT (75% of which had secondary HT and were on antihypertensive medication), mean age 12.1 years was evaluated through casual measurements at the clinic and at the HT unit, HBP for 14 days with the OMRON HEM 705 CP monitor (Omron, Tokyo, Japan) and ABP performed with SPACELABS 90207 (Spacelabs, Redmond, WA), for 24 h.ResultsHT was diagnosed at the doctor's office by ABP and HBP in 30/40, 27/40, and 31/40 patients, respectively. Based on office BP and ABP, 60% of patients were normotensive, 17.5% HT, 7.5% had WCH, and 15% had MH, whereas based on office BP and HBP 65, 12.5, 10, and 12.5% of patients were classified according to these diagnoses, respectively. There was considerable diagnostic agreement of HT by ABP and HBP (McNemar test, P < 0.01) (κ = 0.56).ConclusionIn hypertensive children and adolescents, HBP and ABP present comparable results. HBP appears to be a useful diagnostic test for the detection of MH and WCH in pediatric patients.American Journal of Hypertension (2011). doi:10.1038/ajh.2011.72
- Subjects
AMBULATORY blood pressure monitoring; FEAR of doctors; HYPERTENSION in children; HYPERTENSION in adolescence; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE agents; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
American Journal of Hypertension, 2011, Vol 24, Issue 8, p893
- ISSN
0895-7061
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/ajh.2011.72