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Central Blood Pressure Measurement

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Peripheral arterial blood pressure (BP) is a vital part of routine clinical examination. Upon recognition of the BP amplification phenomenon, central BP and its potential clinical use in the management of arterial hypertension is under intensive investigation. Various methods for direct or indirect estimation of cBP has been developed for clinical or investigational purposes. Following we will deal with the available methods and techniques for measuring central BP and attempt to describe clearly their potential advantages as well as their limitations. However, it must be clearly stated that no consensus has been reached so far on multiple issues that affect the methodology of central BP measurement. The recently developed method, which is based on the classical brachial cuff oscillometry together with the use of mathematical transformations to derive the aortic BP, seems at the moment the most promising and suitable way in order to apply central measurement massively in clinical research, and potentially in future clinical practice.

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ADP has received equipment for research and an unrestricted research grant from IEM (Stolberg, Germany), a manufacturer of central blood pressure measuring device; TGP has received equipment for research purposes from IEM (Stolberg, Germany) and he serves as consultant for Microsoft (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA)

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  1. Department of Medicine, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece

    Dimitrios A. Vrachatis M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D.

  2. Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Medicine, Athens, Greece

    Theodore G. Papaioannou Ph.D.

  3. Cardiovascular Prevention and Research Unit, Department of Pathophysiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 75, Mikras Asias Street (Building 16 - 3rd floor), Athens, 115 27, Greece

    Athanasios D. Protogerou

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Vrachatis, D.A., Papaioannou, T.G., Protogerou, A.D. (2016). Central Blood Pressure Measurement. In: Andreadis, E. (eds) Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39599-9_5

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