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- Title
Blood Pressure Out of the Office: Its Time Has Finally Come.
- Authors
Krakoff, Lawrence R.
- Abstract
The diagnosis of hypertension includes measurement of blood pressure out of the office by either 24-hour ambulatory monitoring or home blood pressure monitoring. These methods have led to recognition of "white coat hypertension" (WCH) and "masked hypertension" (MH). Research in the 1930s first demonstrated that blood pressures in the office were often far different from those out of the office, at a time when there was no effective treatment. International attention was focused on another imminent world war and a highly controversial election in the United States. Hypertension was not a priority for concern. From the 1950s onward: (i) epidemiology linked hypertension to risk of cardiovascular disease, (ii) effective and safe drugs for treatment of hypertension appeared, (iii) randomized clinical trials demonstrated that drug treatment of hypertension is highly effective for prevention of cardiovascular disease, and (iv) advances in technology led to development of small, portable devices for recording blood pressure nonin-vasively at home or during usual activities. Accurate measurement of blood pressure in "real life" is now necessary and feasible for appropriate diagnosis and assessment of treatment. Out-of-office blood pressure measurement is emerging as the standard of care for hypertension.
- Subjects
BLOOD pressure; CARDIOVASCULAR disease diagnosis; HYPERTENSION; AMBULATORY blood pressure monitoring; MASKED hypertension; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases
- Publication
American Journal of Hypertension, 2016, Vol 29, Issue 3, p289
- ISSN
0895-7061
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ajh/hpv179