Bundó M, Urrea M, Muñoz-Ortíz L, Pérez C, Llussà J, Forés R, Alzamora MT, Torán P. Measurement of the ankle brachial index with a non-mercury sphygmomanometer in diabetic patients: a concordance study.
BMC Cardiovasc Disord 2013;
13:15. [PMID:
23497339 PMCID:
PMC3614496 DOI:
10.1186/1471-2261-13-15]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
The removal of mercury sphygmomanometers from health centers requires the validation of other instruments to measure blood pressure in the limbs to calculate the ankle-brachial index (ABI).
METHODS
Descriptive cross-sectional study of agreement between two measurement methods in type 2 diabetes patients from three urban primary healthcare centres in the Barcelonès Nord i Maresme area (Catalonia, Spain).
RESULTS
211 patients were included, from these, 421 limbs were available for study. The mean age of the participants was 67 years (SD = 10), 51.7% were women.
CONCLUSION
The combination of a Doppler device with the hybrid sphygmomanometer is a simple and reliable method to measure ABI showing that hybrid sphygmomanometer is a good alternative to the use of mercury sphygmomanometers.
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