Serial Home Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Measurements for Optimized Management

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BACKGROUND: Serial blood pressure and heart rate measurements, particularly obtained by the patients at home, are currently recommended for the management of patients.

METHODS: Home blood pressure and heart rate measurements were obtained by an 81-year old husband and his 74-year old wife in the morning and evening, over the course of an entire month.

RESULTS: Morning and evening systolic blood pressure (129.9 ± 5.5, 125.9 ± 10.2, respectively), and diastolic blood pressure (69.2 ± 4.0, 70.1 ± 5.3) were not different (P > .05), heart rate (61.2 ± 2.9, 69.0 ± 5.5) was higher in the evening (P = .00001) in the husband, while systolic blood pressure (134.7 ± 9.6, 119.0 ± 12.0) and diastolic blood pressure (78.6 ± 5.6, 72.1 ± 7.3) were higher in the morning (P = .00001, P = .00031), and heart rate (62.7 ± 4.7, 68.2 ± 4.6) was higher in the evening (P = .00017) in the wife.

CONCLUSIONS: Patient-generated serial home blood pressure and heart rate logs provide essential data for the patients' management and could potentially be useful in research; circadian variation of blood pressure and heart rate calls for implementation of chronotherapeutic principles for the time of drug administration.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Enthalten in:

The American journal of medicine - (2024) vom: 04. Apr.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Madias, John E [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Blood pressure and heart rate logs
Blood pressure measurement
Chronotherapy
Circadian variation of blood pressure and heart rate
Heart rate measurement
Home blood pressure measurement
Journal Article

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Date Revised 03.05.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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doi:

10.1016/j.amjmed.2024.03.040

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370717279