Automated office blood pressure measurement in primary care

Martin G. Myers; Janusz Kaczorowski; Martin Dawes; Marshall Godwin

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Table 1.

Mean BP readings taken manually in primary care practice by the patient’s physician and readings taken using a mercury sphygmomanometer as part of a research study: Overall mean BP in routine clinical practice was 154/91 mm Hg, and overall mean BP in the research studies was 145/85 mm Hg.

STUDY	NO. OF PATIENTS	BP MEASUREMENT, mm Hg
STUDY	NO. OF PATIENTS	ROUTINE CLINICAL PRACTICE	RESEARCH STUDY
Myers et al,¹ 1995	147	146/87	140/83
Brown et al,² 2001	611	161/95	152/85
Graves et al,³ 2003	104	152/84	140/80
Gustavsen et al,⁴ 2003	420	165/104	156/100
Myers et al,⁵ 2009	309	152/87	140/80
Head et al,⁶ 2010	6817	150/89	142/82

BP—blood pressure.

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Table 2.

Studies comparing AOBP measurement with AABP measurement: Mean overall AOBP was 137/79 mm Hg, and mean overall AABP was 137/79 mm Hg.

STUDY	NO. OF PATIENTS	POPULATION	AOBP, mm Hg	AABP, mm Hg
Myers et al,⁵ 2009	309	ABPM unit	132/75	134/77
Myers et al,²¹ 2008	200 200	ABPM unit ABPM unit	133/72 132/76	135/76 134/77
Myers et al,²² 2010	139	ABPM unit	141/82	142/81
Beckett and Godwin,²⁵ 2005	481	Family practice	140/80	142/80
Myers et al,²⁶ 2009	62	Hypertension clinic	140/77	141/77
Myers,²⁷ 2010	254	ABPM unit	133/80	135/81
Godwin et al,²⁸ 2011	654	Family practice	139/80	141/80
Myers et al,²⁹ 2011	303	Family practice	135/77	133/74
Andreadis et al,³⁰ 2011	90	Research unit	140/88	136/87