Systolic blood pressure is depending on the arm position when home blood pressure is measured with a wrist or an arm validated monitor

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 181-183

  Dourmap, Caroline ^a   Girerd, Xavier ^a   Marquand, André ^a   Fourcade, Jacques ^a   Hottelard, Carine ^a   Begasse, François ^a   Babici, Daniela ^a   Dimitrov, Yves ^a   Hanon, Olivier ^a  

^a RENNES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

arm monitor; hand position; home blood pressure measurement; wrist monitor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARM MONITOR; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELBOW; FEMALE; FOREARM; GOLD STANDARD; HOME MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MONITOR; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WRIST; WRIST MONITOR; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; ARM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; WRIST;

EID: 77954954995     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MBP.0b013e328337b4a2     Document Type: Article

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