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Measuring orthostatic hypotension with the Finometer device: is a blood pressure drop of one heartbeat clinically relevant?

Nathalie N van der Velde, Anton H AH van den Meiracker, Bruno H Ch BH Stricker, and Tischa J M TJ van der Cammen

Blood Press Monit 12(3):167-71 (2007) PMID 17496466

The role of orthostatic hypotension in falls in older people is generally accepted. Because of the high degree of intra- and interobserver variability in conventional measurements of orthostatic hypotension, application of continuous measurement systems has been proposed. The clinical relevance of a blood pressure drop lasting one heartbeat, however, is unknown. We therefore investigated which time average of continuous-finger-blood-pressure measurement (Finometer) showed the best association between orthostatic hypotension and falls. This was also compared with conventional sphygmomanometer measurements.

DOI: 10.1097/MBP.0b013e3280b083bd
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