A Benefit of Ambulatory BP Monitoring in Patients with Diabetes

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) provides a number of variables—such as 24-hour blood pressure (BP) and pulse pressure, abnormal sleep dipping patterns, and the ambulatory arterial stiffness index (AASI)—that are valuable for assessing mortality risk. In fact, several studies have shown that ABPM is a cut above office BP measurements in predicting mortality in various patient populations. So can ABPM help to predict mortality in older individuals with diabetes?