Cut points for hypertension reflected National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence NICEE) guidelines.
The NCEP III cut off for hypertension was present in a significantly higher proportion of patients in the ME group (P = 0.027) but not in the LE group.
This paper was relatively old and used considerably higher hypertension cut-offs than more contemporary work (variable with minimum cut-off of 160/100mm Hg), which would be expected to result in lower detection rates given a similar population.
Prehypertensives are nonmedicated individuals with suboptimal BP levels not reaching the cut-off for hypertension.
The mean diastolic and systolic blood pressure of the total group was below the respective cut-offs for hypertension [ 12] (Table 3).
Another problem is the definition of 24-h ABPM cut-offs for hypertension diagnosis and therapeutic goals in type 2 DM.
Its hypertension cut-off is higher than that of the other definitions, and it combines the triglyceride criterion (not predictive in women) with the lower and sex-specific HDL-c criterion.
There exist hundreds of hypertension cut-offs in children based on the BP percentile for sex, age, and height, and these cutoffs are difficult for pediatric clinicians to remember and, at times, access.
Prehypertensives are commonly classified as nonhypertensive and are not medicated; however, they have nonoptimal BP levels (i.e., SBP or DBP ≥ 120/80mmHgg but below the cut-off for hypertension) (Chobanian et al. 2003) that could be influenced by air pollution.
The data produced in the present study show a significant increase in the numbers of patients fulfilling the NCEP III-specified cut off levels for hypertension (= 130/85 mm Hg or taking anti-hypertensives) in those receiving long-term GC.
