Journal article
Diagnostic accuracy of unattended automated office blood pressure measurement in screening for hypertension in Kenya
- Abstract:
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Despite increasing adoption of unattended automated office blood pressure (uAOBP) measurement for determining clinic blood pressure (BP), its diagnostic performance in screening for hypertension in low-income settings has not been determined. We determined the validity of uAOBP in screening for hypertension, using 24-hour ambulatory BP monitoring as the reference standard. We studied a random population sample of 982 Kenyan adults; mean age, 42 years; 60% women; 2% with diabetes mellitus; non...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Wellcome Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- American Heart Association Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Hypertension Journal website
- Volume:
- 74
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 1490-1498
- Publication date:
- 2019-10-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-07-24
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1524-4563
- ISSN:
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0194-911X
- Pmid:
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31587589
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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1070055
- Local pid:
- pubs:1070055
- Deposit date:
- 2020-11-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Etyang et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © 2019 The Authors. Hypertension is published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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