Prevalence of blood pressure cuff sizes in a referral practice of 430 consecutive adult hypertensives

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 17-20

  Graves, John W ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Arm circumference; Blood pressure measurement; Hypertension; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035059859     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126097-200102000-00003     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. The sixth report of the Joint National Committee on prevention, detection, evaluation and treatment of high blood pressure
2. The spread of the obesity epidemic in the United States, 1991-1998
3. Hypertension, obesity, and response to antihypertensive treatment: Results of a community survey
4. Incidence, increasing prevalence, and predictors of change in obesity and fat distribution over 5 years in the rapidly developing population of Mauritius
5. Agreement between large and small cuffs in sphygmomanometry: A quantitative assessment
6. Measurement of blood pressure in obese persons
7. Accuracy of auscultatory blood pressure measurements in hypertensive and obese subjects
8. Spurious hypertension in the obese patient. Effect of sphygmomanometer cuff size on prevalence of hypertension
9. Miscuffing: Inappropriate blood pressure cuff application
10. The reliability of auscultatory measurement of arterial blood pressure. A comparison of the standard and a new methodology
11. Recommendations for human blood pressure determination by sphygmomanometers. Report of a special task force appointed by the steering committee
12. Optimizing cuff width for noninvasive measurement of blood pressure