An Assessment of Blood Pressure Measurement in a Diabetic Clinic Using Random-zero, Semi-automated, and 24-hour Monitoring

Longitudinal and age trends of metabolic syndrome and its risk factors: The Family Heart Study

“…The concern was that the change in equipment may impact the MetS prevalence reported. Although Rose at al [20] informed a skip problem for Dinamap for SBP, Sturrock et al [26] have reported that there is an agreement of sphygmomanometer and Dinamap readings. Also, Kuo et al [27] concluded that the averaged readings of duplicate BP measurements by Dinamap were interchangeable with that by sphygmomanometer.…”

Non‐dipping circadian blood pressure and renal impairment are associated with increased mortality in diabetes mellitus

“…This is therefore a diverse and highly selected population of patients deemed at high risk of subsequent renal or cardiac disease. Ambulatory monitoring has previously been shown to be of value in a diabetic clinic[17] and therefore this has been adopted as a routine procedure in our clinic. Accepting the limitations of the patient selection, the marked difference in mortality rates for dippers and non‐dippers appears to be important and points to the relevance of using ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in day‐to‐day clinical practice in specially selected high risk patients.…”

Comparison of Dinamap 8100 with sphygmomanometer blood pressure measurement in a prepubertal diabetes cohort

“…Directly comparing derived pressures from the mean arterial pressure (device) against auscultated readings (observer) is a difficult exercise. It is therefore problematic defining agreement between two different parameters 24 . The methods of Bland and Altman 21 allow some means of addressing this, by assessing how far the actual numbers are away from the mean of the two methods.…”