Morning Surge and Peak Morning Ambulatory Blood Pressure Versus Automated Office Blood Pressure in Predicting Cardiovascular Disease.

Introduction: Automated office blood pressure (AOBP) has been recently shown to predict equally well to ambulatory blood pressure (ABP), conventional office blood pressure (OBP) and home blood pressure (HBP), cardiovascular (CV) events among hypertensives.

Aim: To compare AOBP recording and ABP monitoring in order to evaluate morning blood pressure (BP) peak in predicting CV events and deaths in hypertensives.

Methods: We assessed 236 initially untreated hypertensives, examined between 2009 and 2013.

The optimal night-time home blood pressure monitoring schedule: agreement with ambulatory blood pressure and association with organ damage.

Objective: Night-time home blood pressure (HBP) monitoring has emerged as a feasible, reliable and low-cost alternative to ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) monitoring. This study evaluated the optimal schedule of night-time HBP monitoring in terms of agreement with night-time ABP and association with preclinical target-organ damage.

Methods: Untreated hypertensive adults were evaluated with ABP (24-h) and HBP monitoring (daytime: six days, duplicate morning and evening measurements; night-time: three nights, three-hourly automated measurements/night), and determination of left ventricular mass index, common carotid intima-media thickness and urinary albumin excretion.

Home, automated office, and conventional office blood pressure as predictors of cardiovascular risk.

Automated office blood pressure (AOBP) has recently been shown to closely predict cardiovascular (CV) events in the elderly. Home blood pressure (HBP) has also been accepted as a valuable method in the prediction of CV disease. This study aimed to compare conventional office BP (OBP), HBP, and AOBP in order to evaluate their value in predicting CV events and deaths in hypertensives.

Automated office blood pressure is associated with urine albumin excretion in hypertensive subjects.

Background: We aimed to investigate the association between automated office blood pressure (AOBP) readings and urine albumin excretion (UAE), and to assess if this association is as close as that between 24-h ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) and UAE. A strong association would suggest that AOBP may serve as an indicator of early renal impairment.

Methods: In a sample of 162 hypertensives, we compared AOBP with ABP measurements and their associations with UAE in two consecutive 24-h urine collections measured by an immunoturbidimetric assay.