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Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Articles
- Don't Break a Hip: How ABPM Can Help
- American Society of Hypertension Urges CDC to Use ABPM
- Interval Exercise: A New Approach to Lowering BP
- Speculation over implementation of NICE Guidelines on ABPM begins
- Hypertension Diagnosis: Be confident and save money with an ABPM Study
- Should Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Be Required?
- In-Office Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring: Could it replace traditional office BP assessment?
- Concord grape juice lowers BP? Not so fast!
- SunTech's Blood Pressure Technology Logs Over 2 Decades of Space Exploration
- Does Your New Physician Make Your Blood Pressure Rise
- Implantable blood pressure monitors: Science fiction or reality?
- Masked Hypertension: What You Don't Know Could Kill You!
- Correctly Diagnosing High BP In Children: Help Needed!
- Top 5 reasons your automated BP monitor gave an error code
- Guidelines for Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Children
- ASH 2010: A Focus on Improving Blood Pressure Measurement Technique
- Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
- ABPM Reimbursement in the US
- ABPM Used to Identify Masked Hypertension in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease
- A Guide to Ambulatory Monitoring -- How to Instruct Your Patients
- Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Used for “The Dr. Oz Show”
- The Importance of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring...continued
- The Importance of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
Don't Break a Hip: How ABPM Can Help
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- Monday, December 03 2012
- Written by Lindsay Sloan
As we have all heard time and time again hypertension is a prevalent public health issue, but it affects the elderly at a much higher rate. A newly published study now warns that "caution" is needed when initiating new antihypertensive drugs to treat elderly patients. The findings, published last month in the Archives of Internal Medicine (AIM), showed that elderly patients had a 43% increased risk of having a hip fracture within the first 45 days following the start of new antihypertensive treatment.1 It is reportedly "'the first study to demonstrate an immediate increased risk of hip fracture on initiation of antihypertensive drug therapy in community-dwelling hypertensive elderly patients'". The researchers also hypothesized that the most likely cause of the hip fractures were falls related to orthostatic hypotension, which can have symptoms such as dizziness and fainting.2
American Society of Hypertension Urges CDC to Use ABPM
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- Wednesday, October 03 2012
- Written by Kenny Andersen
Last week, we blogged on the recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that noted some pretty serious concerns about our national state of health as it relates to hypertension and its potentially deadly effects.
This week, we want to draw your attention to a press release from the American Society of Hypertension urging the CDC to incorporate ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) as a way to apply a more "sensitive and specific tool for assessing blood pressure in its national surveys."1
Interval Exercise: A New Approach to Lowering BP
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- Tuesday, July 24 2012
- Written by Lindsay Sloan
Exercise has long been recommended to patients wanting a non-pharmaceutical approach to achieving lower blood pressure (BP). The American Heart Association (AHA) specifically recommends:
- At least 150 minutes of moderate intensity aerobic physical activity (2 hours and 30 minutes) each week.
- Incorporate your weekly physical activity with 30 minutes a day, at least 5 days a week.
- Physical activity should be performed in episodes of at least 10 minutes, and preferably, should be spread throughout the week.
- Include flexibility and stretching exercises.
- Include muscle strengthening activity at least 2 days each week.1
Speculation over implementation of NICE Guidelines on ABPM begins
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- Thursday, November 17 2011
- Written by Lindsay Sloan
Three months ago, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK released new guidelines for managing hypertension in adults. The new recommendations call for the use of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) to confirm a diagnosis of hypertension when a patient has a clinic BP reading of 140/90 mmHg or above. One of the major questions raised was how this would be implemented.
Hypertension Diagnosis: Be confident and save money with an ABPM Study
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- Monday, September 12 2011
- Written by Lindsay Sloan
Hypertension is a prevalent condition globally and is quickly becoming a focus in the U.K., with particular emphasis on how to best diagnose the condition. In August, a study comparing blood pressure (BP) measurement methods, which was funded by the U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), was published on the same day that NICE announced the release of its new guidelines for hypertension management in adults.
In the study, Cost-effectiveness of options for the diagnosis of high blood pressure in primary care: a modelling study, the research found that “ambulatory monitoring is cost effective compared with further monitoring in the clinic or home for confirming the diagnosis of hypertension” for all age and gender groups considered. Specifically, ABPM provided cost savings ranging from £56 in men aged 75 years to £323 in women aged 40 years (Equivalent to $89 and $511 respectively). Additionally, it was determined that ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) “resulted in improved health outcomes for male and female age groups older than 50.”
Should Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Be Required?
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- Tuesday, August 09 2011
- Written by Kenny Andersen
Dr. Henry Black, former President of the American Society of Hypertension, presents this very question in his recent video on Medscape News. While Medscape requires a free login account to view their content, we felt this report rather significant and worthy of sharing.
In the video article, Dr. Black points out that the practices of how we measure blood pressure are changing as technology advances and becomes more available. He also explains that while home monitoring is becoming more commonplace, studies of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) are telling us more about its unique prognostic benefits.
In-Office Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring: Could it replace traditional office BP assessment?
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- Wednesday, June 15 2011
- Written by Kenny Andersen
That’s just the question Dr. Mark C. van der Wel and colleagues sought the answer to in an article published in the Annals of Family Medicine. As we at SunTech have mentioned in previous posts, two of the most prevalent problems with traditional in-office blood pressure assessment is improper observer technique and the white-coat effect. As a way to overcome this, the authors developed a method of taking a series of in-office automated oscillometric blood pressure readings for 30 minutes by utilizing an ambulatory blood pressure monitor (ABPM) and compared those results with mean daytime ABPM results.
Concord grape juice lowers BP? Not so fast!
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- Wednesday, February 23 2011
- Written by Matt Jones
The New Year is upon us and a lot of us have declared to get healthier in 2011. Whether you have started a new workout regimen or have changed your diet to consume more fruits and veggies, any change is good change, right? Growing up in North Carolina, where we fry everything from chicken to green beans, I was never fond of eating healthy so my mother always stressed the importance of “drinking your juice” instead of so many soft drinks. However, recent research may shed some light on the effects of juice consumption. Being that SunTech Medical is your one-stop shop for blood pressure (BP) measurement expertise, let’s explore the effects juice consumption has on BP!
SunTech's Blood Pressure Technology Logs Over 2 Decades of Space Exploration
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- Wednesday, February 09 2011
- Written by Kent Lupino
Traditionally, we try not to engage in excessive self-promotion on the SunTech Blog. But last month marked the 24th anniversary of SunTech’s first journey into space, and we’d like to let our readers know about this important and interesting chapter in our history. In the pre-dawn darkness of January 12, 1986, the space shuttle Columbia blasted off from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, carrying with it a special version of the SunTech Accutracker II ABPM device. When Columbia landed successfully at Edwards Air Force base after 98 orbits, it may have marked the end of mission STS-61C, but it was just the beginning of SunTech’s foray into space-based research.
Does Your New Physician Make Your Blood Pressure Rise
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- Wednesday, October 20 2010
- Written by Tony Francisco
A recent article in the Journal of Clinical Hypertension does a colorful yet effective job of describing the transient effects of White Coat Hypertension (WCH) when meeting a new physician. Studies show that patients who are not hypertensive but show high BP readings when visiting a new doctor for their first time can continue to present with these elevated BP readings for three to six visits. Although treatment for hypertension based on these measurements is not recommended, the gold standard diagnostic test for WCH, a 24-hour study with an ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) monitor, can more effectively determine whether treatment is, in fact, needed.
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