19 Mar 2025 • A recent study compared different blood pressure monitoring methods for diagnosing hypertension in hemodialysis patients, highlighting home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) as more effective than routine dialysis-unit BP recordings over a week.

HBPM showed a significantly higher predictive value for diagnosing hypertension compared to 44-hour ambulatory BP monitoring, with an area under the curve of 0.934 for detecting systolic BP ≥135 mmHg, outperforming both predialysis (0.778) and postdialysis (0.766) BP recordings.

HBPM also demonstrated greater sensitivity (85.7%) and specificity (92.9%) with a cut-off of 141.0 mmHg. These findings suggest that HBPM could be a better method for hypertension diagnosis in hemodialysis patients.

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