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Comment
. 2015 Jun;17(6):462-5.
doi: 10.1111/jch.12524. Epub 2015 Mar 16.

Failure to Provide ABPM to All Hypertensive Patients Amounts to Medical Ineptitude

Eoin O'Brien  1 , Eamon Dolan  2 , Neil Atkins  3
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Comment

Failure to Provide ABPM to All Hypertensive Patients Amounts to Medical Ineptitude

Eoin O'Brien et al. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2015 Jun.
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Figure 1
Examples of ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring (ABPM) measurements where office BP was 150 mm Hg to 152 mm Hg systolic BP (SBP) and 88 mm Hg to 95 mm Hg diastolic BP (DBP). OBP indicates office BP.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Examples of ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring (ABPM) measurements where office BPs were all 130/70 mm Hg. OBP indicates office BP.
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