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If patients are left alone when their blood pressure is measured, then automated devices can be used to virtually eliminate white-coat hypertension in a GP surgery, a new study reveals.
GPs urged to ensure stroke patients' blood pressure is within normal range
Key questions on blood pressure management (1.5 CPD hours)
Readings taken automatically by a blood pressure monitor, with patients left alone in the room, were significantly lower than those taken manually.
This study was part of the conventional versus automated measurement of blood pressure in the office (CAMBO) trial.
Some 67 GP practices in eastern Canada were randomised to either use manual office blood pressure measurement ? with a mercury or aneroid sphygmomanometer - or automated office blood pressure with a BpTRU device to monitor patients with known systolic hypertension.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsart...nsion?sp_rid=NjU3NzMyNzAyOQS2&sp_mid=37625114
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GPs urged to ensure stroke patients' blood pressure is within normal range
Key questions on blood pressure management (1.5 CPD hours)
Readings taken automatically by a blood pressure monitor, with patients left alone in the room, were significantly lower than those taken manually.
This study was part of the conventional versus automated measurement of blood pressure in the office (CAMBO) trial.
Some 67 GP practices in eastern Canada were randomised to either use manual office blood pressure measurement ? with a mercury or aneroid sphygmomanometer - or automated office blood pressure with a BpTRU device to monitor patients with known systolic hypertension.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsart...nsion?sp_rid=NjU3NzMyNzAyOQS2&sp_mid=37625114
(free registration required)