![]() High blood pressure is currently the greatest threat to the global burden of disease. The various blood pressure categorizations afforded by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring are valuable for clinical management of high blood pressure since they increase accuracy for diagnosis and the prediction of cardiovascular risk. Approximately 70% of individuals dip ≥10% at night, while 30% have non-dipping patterns, when blood pressure remains similar to daytime average, or occasionally rises above daytime average. A non-dipping pattern and nocturnal hypertension are strongly associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. During sleep, blood pressure typically decreases, or dips, such that mean sleep blood pressure is lower than mean awake blood pressure. Additionally, readings can be segmented into time windows of particular interest, e.g., mean daytime and nighttime values. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring facilitates the identification of white-coat hypertension, the phenomenon whereby certain individuals who are not on antihypertensive medication show elevated blood pressure in a clinical setting but show non-elevated blood pressure averages when assessed by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring offers the ability to collect blood pressure readings several times an hour across a 24-hour period. ![]()
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