Discovery of a new blood pressure phenotype from invasive central-to-peripheral recordings: implications for brachial cuff accuracy and cardiovascular risk assessment

Background: Accuracy of brachial cuff blood pressure (BP) may be influenced by individual variability in central-to-peripheral systolic BP (SBP)-amplification, but this has never been determined. We aimed to achieve this by characterising SBP-amplification phenotypes and examining associations with cuff BP accuracy.

Source: Artery Research - November 25, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dean Picone, Martin Schultz, Xiaoqing Peng, Andrew Black, Nathan Dwyer, Phil Roberts-Thomson, Velandai Srikanth, James Sharman Source Type: research