Degaute J P
Clinique d'Hypertension Artérielle, Hôpital Erasme, Bruxelles.
Rev Med Brux. 1994 Jul-Aug;15(4):229-31.
Recent publication of several consensus by well-known international experts in the field of high blood pressure gives us the opportunity to update the definition of hypertension. For the first time, systolic blood pressure is taken into account to define hypertensives. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring has been recently developed for the evaluation and treatment of hypertensive patients. Due to the absence of world-wide recognized normative data and the lack of prospective studies assessing the superiority of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring over casual blood pressure measurement for the prediction of cardiovascular events, the use of this new technique is to be restricted to a limited number of hypertensive patients.
近期，高血压领域的几位知名国际专家发表了多项共识，这使我们有机会更新高血压的定义。首次将收缩压纳入高血压的定义考量。动态血压监测最近已被用于高血压患者的评估和治疗。由于缺乏全球公认的规范数据，且缺乏前瞻性研究评估动态血压监测在预测心血管事件方面优于偶测血压测量，这项新技术的应用将限于少数高血压患者。
