American journal of hypertension
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Accumulating evidence suggests the potential superiority of office aortic blood pressure (BP) over brachial in the management of arterial hypertension. The noninvasive aortic 24-h ambulatory brachial BP monitoring (ABPM) is potentially the optimal method for assessing BP profile. The objective of the present study was to investigate the feasibility and reproducibility to perform noninvasively 24-h aortic ABPM with a novel validated brachial cuff-based automatic oscillometric device (Mobilo-O-Graph) which records brachial BP and waveforms and assesses aortic BP via mathematical transformation. ⋯ In conclusion, these data suggest that noninvasive 24-h ABPM is feasible and provides reproducible values. Future studies should validate the prognostic ability of 24-h aortic hemodynamics.