Use of Automated Office Blood Pressure Measurement in the Evaluation of Elevated Blood Pressures in Children and Adolescents

To determine the level of agreement between AOBP, auscultated or manual office BP (MOBP) and 24 hour ABPM, and to explore the ability of AOBP and MOBP to correctly identify daytime ambulatory hypertension (HTN) in children. Study design: We retrospectively compared BPs obtained by AOBP and MOBP to predict daytime HTN on ABPM. Six BPs were taken by AOBP followed by MOBP. Office HTN was defined by BPs> 95th% for sex and height percentiles for those130/80 for ages> 13 years. Daytime ambulatory HTN was diagnosed if mean wake BPs were> 95thpercentile and BP loads were>25%.
Source: The Journal of Pediatrics - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research