Reproducibility of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Results in Pregnancy

Blood pressure (BP) differences between two consecutive 24-h monitoring periods (P1, P2) were analyzed in 159 hospitalized pregnant women. Reproducibility index, or twice the standard deviation of differences between individual systolic and diastolic means, was better for 24-h (7.8 and 5.8) and dayt...

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Published in:American journal of hypertension 1998-07, Vol.11 (7), p.852-855
Main Authors: Livi, Riccardo, Teghini, Laila, Parretti, Elena, Detti, Laura, Mello, Giorgio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
Biological and medical sciences
Blood pressure
Blood Pressure - physiology
Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory
Circadian Rhythm - physiology
Diastole
Female
Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics
Humans
Management. Prenatal diagnosis
Medical sciences
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Trimesters - physiology
Pregnancy. Fetus. Placenta
reproducibility
Reproducibility of Results
Systole
Time Factors
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Summary:Blood pressure (BP) differences between two consecutive 24-h monitoring periods (P1, P2) were analyzed in 159 hospitalized pregnant women. Reproducibility index, or twice the standard deviation of differences between individual systolic and diastolic means, was better for 24-h (7.8 and 5.8) and daytime (8.7 and 6.3) than for nighttime (12.2 and 9.7) BP means. It did not depend on BP level or gestation week. Alert reaction to monitoring procedure increased BP only in the first 2 h of P1. The high overall reproducibility of ambulatory BP in pregnancy supports the expanding use of the technique also in this condition.
ISSN:0895-7061
1879-1905
1941-7225
DOI:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00040-5