Utility of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in detection of masked hypertension and risk of hypertension mediated organ damage in normotensive patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Abstract

A single office blood pressure (BP) reading cannot rule out hypertension in patients with diabetes. Regardless of hypertension, clinicians should have all patients, especially patients with diabetes, undergo ABPM at least once. Masked hypertension, changes in nocturnal dipping and other phenomena that raise the risk of diabetes complications but cannot be measured by office BP can be measured by ABPM, and thus ABPM can provide a good prognostic benefit.