Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring for Ideal Blood Pressure Controll: A Kenyan Retrospective Review

Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring is a useful tool for the diagnosis and monitoring of hypertension. Its use is limited due to both access to the technology and financial constraints. We present our limited experience with it to expound on its strengths and utility. We had a total of 30 studies performed between November, 2018 to August, 2019. There were 26 patients with a diagnosis of hypertension,17 on medication and 9 not on medication. 16 tests achieved the greater than 70 % required percentage of readings over 24 hours. The results showed that of the hypertensive patients with elevated office blood pressure were controlled by ambulatory blood pressure guidelines. More research is required to understand the full potential of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring to assess control of blood pressure.