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Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in CKD
Hypertension is common in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the prevalence increases with declining kidney function. Hypertension management is particularly important due to the increased risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke in the CKD population. Most clinical decisions for blood pressure (BP) management are based on BP readings in the office or dialysis unit. These BP readings often are inaccurate. Home BP monitoring provides more data than conventional clinic or dialysis-unit BP measurements and is relatively easy to accomplish, is cost-effective, and has been shown to have an increasing role in the ma...
Source: American Journal of Kidney Diseases - February 14, 2014 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Debbie L. Cohen, Yonghong Huan, Raymond R. Townsend Tags: In Practice Source Type: research