Assessing the validity of oscillometric device for blood pressure measurement in a large population-based epidemiological study

To evaluate the accuracy of the Omron HBP-1300, an automatic device for BP measurement, compared with the standard auscultatory method with a mercury sphygmomanometer, we conducted a large population-based survey. From 2012-2015, a total of 500,000 participants were randomly selected from the 262 urban cities and rural counties in China, of them BP was measured 3 times simultaneously with mercury sphygmomanometer and Omron HBP-1300 in 37, 816 participants. Bias was estimated as the average of the auscultatory measurements minus the average of the oscillometric measurements, with its corresponding 95% limits of agreement.

Source: Journal of the American Society of Hypertension - September 21, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Zuo CHEN, Xin WANG, Zengwu WANG, Linfeng ZHANG, Guang HAO, Ying Dong, Manlu ZHU, Runlin GAO, for China Hypertension Survey Group Tags: Research Paper Source Type: research