TY - JOUR
AU - Hansson,, Lennart
AB - Abstract This study compare.s blood pressures measured with a standard cuff (rubber bag 12×35cm) with concomitantly measured intra-arterial pressures in 48 subjects. With the standard cuff, and using a diagnostic cut-off limit for diastolic hypertension of 90 mmHg, 15/48 patients were found to be hypertensive, whereas only 4/48 had intraarterial pressure above 90 mmHg. Thus, the specificity of the non-invasive method was only 75%. If higher diagnostic cut-off limits were used, e.g. 95 mmHg, specificity increased to 84%, and with lower cut-offs specificity was 63% for 85 mmHg and 52% for 80 mmHg. A specificity of only 75% is very poor for a method commonly used in screening examinations and may lead to considerable over-diagnosis of mild hypertension. Blood pressure measurement, hypertension This content is only available as a PDF. © 1992 Pergamon Press Ltd
TI - IS BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT WITH A STANDARD CUFF RELIABLE?
JO - International Journal for Quality in Health Care
DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.intqhc.a036720
DA - 1992-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/is-blood-pressure-measurement-with-a-standard-cuff-reliable-52WAgQ1tug
SP - 199
EP - 204
VL - 4
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -