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

To evaluate the accuracy of the Omron HBP-1300, an automatic device for blood pressure (BP) measurement, compared with the standard auscultatory method with a mercury sphygmomanometer, we conducted a large population-based survey. From 2012 to 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 three 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 Article Source Type: research