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. 2019 Jan 22;32(4):350–364. doi: 10.1093/ajh/hpy185

Table 4.

Correlation with ambulatory blood pressure measurement (ABPM) for reliability/reproducibility studies across number of days of readings and time between readings

Study (first author; publication date) Measurement schedule Comparator N Correlation coefficient between home systolic/diastolic BP and the comparator measurement
Time between readings Number of days (from first day onwards unless otherwise stated)
10 seconds 1 minute 1 day 2 days 3 days 4 days 5 days 6 days 7 days
Almeida (2014) 3 days Before-morning micturition and in afternoon: 15 (3 day 1, 6 on days 2 and 3) 24-hour wakefulness ABPM 158 0.769/0.826
3 days post-morning micturition and evening: 15 (3 day 1, 6 on days 2 and 3) Before SMBP 0.722/0.742
Almeida (2013) 3 days and 33 readings (9 on day 1, 12 on each of day 2 and day 3) 24-hour ABPM 158 0.76/0.80
5 days and 27 readings (3 on day 1, 6 on days 2–5) Day before SMBP 0.61/0.69
Ambrosi (2014) 7 days (2 readings in the morning and 2 readings in the evening on each day) 24-hour ABPM 58 0.75/0.62 0.71/0.65 (Days 2–7)
Within 15 days end of SMBP
Boivin (2014) 3 readings without rest, i.e., immediately after positioning cuff (am and pm for 3 days, total 18 readings) Daytime ABPM 52 0.69/0.66
3 readings 5 minutes after first series (am and pm for 3 days, total 18 readings) Within 3 days before SMBP 0.70/0.66
Di Monaco (2016) 4 days (2 readings in the morning and 2 readings in the evening on each day) Daytime ABPM
Day before SMBP
310 0.57/0.72 0.57/0.72 0.58/0.72 0.59/0.72
24-hour ABPM
Day before SMBP
0.58/0.71 0.58/0.71 0.59/0.71 0.59/0.72
Eguchi (2009) 4 days per week for 8 weeks (3 readings in the morning and 3 in the evening on each day) Daytime ABPM 56 0.712/0.693 0.725/0.673
ABPM on second visit during SMBP schedule
Hoffman-Petersen (2015) 4 days. 3 am (6–8 am), 3 before dinner (5–7 pm), 3 before bedtime (9–11 pm) Daytime ABPM 102 0.61/0.56 0.61/0.55 (days 2–3) 0.69/0.61 (days 2–4)
Just after completion after SMBP
Johannson (2010) 7 days (2 readings in the morning and 2 readings in the evening on each day) 24-hour ABPM 464 0.84/0.82 0.87/0.84 0.88/0.85 0.88/0.86 0.89/0.86 0.89/0.87 0.89/0.87
Timing in relationship to SMBP unclear 0.89/ 0.87 (days 2–3) 0.87/ 0.85 (days 2–7)
Kim (2015)a 7 days (3 readings in the morning and 3 readings in the evening on each day) 24-hour ABPM 266 0.80 0.79 0.79
McGowan (2010) 7 days (2 readings in the morning and 2 readings in the evening on each day) Daytime ABPM 87 0.72/0.89 (days 2–7)
ABPM and SMBP within total 8-day period (i e., ABPM 1 day before or after SMBP)— some ABPM first and some SMBP first
Muxfeldt (2015) 5 days (3 am between 6 and 10 am) and 3 pm between 6 and 10 pm) Daytime ABPM 240 0.68/0.73 (days 2–5)
SMBP initiated day after ABPM
Nunan (2015) 7 days (2 readings in the morning and 2 in the evening) Daytime ABPM 203 0.658/0.707 (days 2–5) 0.649/0.703 0.68/0.71 (days 2–6) 0.671/0.708
After completing SMBP
Stergiou (1998) 3 work days per week for 2 weeks (2 readings in the morning and 2 readings in the evening on each day) Daytime ABPM 189 0.66/0.70 0.68/0.73 0.68/0.75 0.70/0.77 0.71/0.78 0.71/0.79
Some ABPM first and some SMBP first, one after the other 0.67/0.76 (days 2–3) 0.69/0.77 (days 2–4) 0.71/0.79
(days 2–5)
0.71/0.79
(days 2–6)
Verberk (2006) 7 days (3 readings in the morning and 3 readings in the evening, with the first of each triplicate discarded) Daytime ABPM 216 0.53/0.59 0.57/0.61 0.60/0.63 0.62/0.63 0.63/0.66 0.64/0.66 0.65/0.66
Timing vs. SMBP unclear
0.60/0.61 (days 2–3) 0.62/0.62 (days 2–4)
0.66/0.66 (days 3–5)
0.66/0.67 (days 4–6)
0.64/0.66 (days 5–7)
0.64/0.66 (days 2–5)
0.66/0.67 (days 3–6)
0.66/0.67 (days 4–7)
0.65/0.66 (days 2–6)
0.66/0.67 (days 3–7)
0.65/0.66 (days 2–7)
24-hour ABPM 216 0.57/0.61 0.62/0.63 0.66/0.66 0.68/0.66 0.69/0.69 0.69/0.69 0.70/0.69
Timing vs. SMBP unclear 0.66/0.64 (days 2–3) 0.69/0.66 (days 2–4)
0.71/0.69 (days 3–5)
0.70/0.69 (days 4–6)
0.69/0.68 (days 5–7)
0.69/0.69 (days 2–5)
0.71/0.69 (days 3–6)
0.71/0.70 (days 4–7)
0.69/0.69 (days 2–6)
0.71/0.69 (days 3–7)
0.70/0.69 (days 2–7)

Abbreviations: BP, blood pressure; SMBP, self-monitoring of blood pressure.

aConference abstract only. Study provides intraclass correlation coefficient data, not Pearson correlation coefficient data, so is not strictly comparable to other studies.