In chronic kidney disease, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring seems more accurate in predicting subsequent health events
Monday, June 27, 2011 - 21:30
in Health & Medicine
Ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring with collection of BP readings over 24 hours may better predict, in cases of nondialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD), whether patients will experience end-stage renal disease, mortality or cardiovascular events that require hospitalization, according to a new report.