What is Ambulatory blood pressure?

Monitoring blood pressure at regular intervals throughout day and night is generally termed as ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. This kind of monitoring removes some kinds of errors known as the white coat hypertension. This is due to the fact that the data is collected at periodic intervals throughout the day and night and as such the computed value of blood pressure has minimized error than that computed from general observations containing the white coat hypertension error. It has been seen through number of studies that ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is considered to be superior to any clinical method for blood pressure measurement. Monitoring the blood pressure values during the night in ambulatory blood pressure monitoring technique has an advantage where a doctor could spot any kind of nocturnal hypertension in a patient. Nocturnal hypertension is associated with end organ damage. One can easily calculate the dip and non dip in blood pressure using ambulatory blood pressure measurement technique. One can spot our condition like morning surge using this monitoring technique. One can easily calculate the variability in the blood pressure of a person through non invasive methods. The most important thing one can spot out using ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is the end organ damages.