Is Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring right for your practice?

While patients can check their blood pressure at home or at the drug store, clinicians still rely mostly on in-office blood pressure readings for hypertension management. But readings can be inaccurate for a variety of reasons, including white coat hypertension and masked hypertension. At-home monitoring is superior to office readings in predicting future cardiovascular events, morbidity, mortality, and target organ damage, and there is increasing evidence supports the 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) approach. Evidence has been accumulating over the past decade demonstrating results of ABPM as superior to office blood pressure in predicting cardiovascular outcomes.

Evidence from the front lines supports use of ambulatory ABPM. Learn about setting up an ABPM program in your practice.