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The impact of changing home blood pressure monitoring cutoff from 135/85 to 130/80 mmHg on hypertension phenotypes.
Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) - 1 Jul 2021
Feitosa Audes D M, Mota-Gomes Marco A, Barroso Weimar S, Miranda Roberto D, Barbosa Eduardo C D, Brandão Andréa A, Nobre Fernando, Mion Decio, Amodeo Celso, Lima-Filho José L, Sposito Andrei C, Nadruz Wilson
Abstract excerpt
This study investigated the impact of changing abnormal home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) cutoff from 135/85 to 130/80 mmHg on the prevalence of hypertension phenotypes, considering an abnormal office blood pressure cutoff of 140/90 mmHg. We evaluated 57 768 individuals (26 876 untreated and 30 892 treated with antihypertensive medications) from 719 Brazilian centers who performed HBPM. Changing the HBPM...
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