Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) in Kharkiv — Comprehensive Hypertension Assessment
Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) is a diagnostic procedure that automatically records your blood pressure at regular intervals over a full 24-hour period. This method provides a comprehensive picture of blood pressure fluctuations during normal daily activities, sleep, and varying levels of stress, ensuring high diagnostic accuracy and hypertension management compared to isolated office-based measurements.
Key Advantages of ABPM at Brigid Center
Multiple Measurements
50–100 automatic BP readings over 24 hours provide the most complete data for clinical analysis.
Overnight Assessment
Evaluating blood pressure during sleep is critically important for determining overall cardiovascular risk.
Detection of "White Coat Hypertension"
Identifies conditions where BP rises only within a medical facility due to patient anxiety.
Masked Hypertension
Detects "masked hypertension" (normal pressure during a doctor's visit but elevated during daily life).
Treatment Optimization
Allows for the evaluation of the real effectiveness of prescribed medications throughout their entire duration of action.
Circadian Rhythm
Assesses diurnal blood pressure fluctuations and nocturnal dipping status.
What is Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring?
ABPM involves wearing a portable blood pressure monitor with a cuff that automatically inflates at preset intervals (typically every 15–30 minutes during the day and 30–60 minutes at night) to register pressure and heart rate. This creates a detailed profile of your BP in real-world conditions, independent of the "alerting response" often triggered by clinical environments.
- Automatic Measurements: Between 50 and 100 readings over 24 hours.
- Day/Night Distribution: Separate analysis of activity and sleep periods.
- Correlation with Activity: Analysis of pressure during various daily physical loads.
- Blood Pressure Variability: Evaluation of the degree of BP fluctuations throughout the day.
- Heart Rate Monitoring: Simultaneous registration of heart rate frequency.
- Patient Diary: Comparison of device readings with patient symptoms and recorded activities.
When is ABPM Recommended?
Clinical Situations Requiring ABPM:
- Suspected "White Coat Hypertension": When pressure rises only during a physician's consultation.
- Suspected Masked Hypertension: Normal readings in the clinic despite elevated pressure at home.
- Borderline Hypertension: To confirm or rule out a diagnosis when office BP readings are ambiguous.
- Resistant Hypertension: When blood pressure is poorly controlled despite taking multiple medications.
- Hypotensive Symptoms: Dizziness or fainting spells occurring during antihypertensive treatment.
- Nocturnal Hypertension: Suspected high pressure during sleep (especially common with snoring or apnea).
- Autonomic Dysfunction: Disorders affecting the regulation of blood pressure.
- Hypertension in Pregnancy: Evaluation of gestational hypertension or preeclampsia risk.
Schedule Your Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
24-hour ambulatory monitoring provides the essential information needed for accurate hypertension diagnosis, cardiovascular risk assessment, and treatment optimization. By capturing blood pressure behavior during daily life and sleep, ABPM offers insights that simply cannot be obtained through standard clinical measurements.
Contact us today to schedule your ABPM or to discuss the clinical necessity of this study with a physician.
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