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How can we improve nocturnal BP assessments?
Discussion about how to improve nocturnal BP assessments with Prof. Francesco Cappuccio as part of the webinar "Tackling the challenges of nocturnal hypertension: New approach in the diagnosis and management" sponsored by Servier and Omron.
KEY MESSAGES
- Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) can help to assess nocturnal BP (for both nocturnal dippers and reverse dippers) by giving many advantages, like having objective measures in 24h and white-coat and masked hypertension detection.
- ABPM is indicated to:
- Diagnose hypertension
- Detect white-coat and masked hypertension, nocturnal hypertension, non-dippers, and reverse dippers
- Confirm uncontrolled and resistant hypertension, 24h BP control, symptomatic hypotension
- Assess BP changes due to autonomic failure
- ABPM main disadvantages are possible discomfort (particularly during sleep), and the frequent not calculation of sleeping BP using the individuals’ sleeping times.
- Many devices have been introduced with a great potential to obtain multiple and/or continuous BP measurements for days without disturbing the patient.
This video is part of the webinar "Tackling the challenges of nocturnal hypertension: New approach in the diagnosis and management" sponsored by Servier and Omron with speakers Francesco Cappuccio and Gianfranco Parati.
View also the other parts of the webinar: