The ???ABPM effect??? gradually decreases but does not disappear in successive sessions of ambulatory monitoring
- 1 December 2003
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal Of Hypertension
- Vol. 21 (12), 2265-2273
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00004872-200312000-00014
Abstract
Previous results have indicated that ambulatory monitoring provides a pressor effect on patients using the device for the first time, but not on successive sessions of monitoring. Our objective was to validate and quantify the extent and duration of this pressor effect in hypertensive patients repeatedly evaluated every few months. We studied 823 mild-to-moderate hypertensive subjects (347 men), 53.4 ± 14.1 years of age. Blood pressure was measured at 20-min intervals during the day and at 30-min intervals at night for 48 consecutive hours, and physical activity was simultaneously evaluated every minute with a wrist actigraph. Forty per cent of the patients were evaluated twice or more. In patients evaluated for the first time, results indicated a highly statistically significant (PConclusions Ambulatory monitoring for 48 h revealed a statistically significant pressor response that could mostly reflect a novelty effect in the use of the monitoring device. This effect has marked implications in both research and clinical daily practice for a proper diagnosis of hypertension and evaluation of treatment efficacy by the use of ambulatory monitoring.Keywords
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