Table 4 The answers among participants according to age and specialty or working place in 2007–2008 survey
From: Practice and awareness of physicians regarding home blood pressure measurement in Japan
Age (years) | Speciallty | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
<40 | 40–49 | 50–59 | 60–69 | >=70 | P-value | Internal medicine | Others | P-value | |
Practical use of HBP measurement | |||||||||
a. Do you recommend the patients with HT to measure the HBP? | |||||||||
Yes (%) | 97.8 | 96.3 | 95.0 | 94.0 | 88.9 | <0.0001 | 94.9 | 93.3 | 0.13 |
b. Of which BP information, CBP or HBP, do you think much as a tool for diagnosis and treatment of HT? | |||||||||
HBP (%) | 71.3 | 66.0 | 56.0 | 47.4 | 39.7 | <0.0001 | 56.2 | 60.2 | 0.09 |
c. Which measurement is important, morning or evening? | |||||||||
Morning (%) | 52.5 | 59.0 | 54.8 | 59.3 | 49.5 | 0.009 | 55.4 | 56.5 | 0.65 |
Awareness of the reference values for HBP | |||||||||
Systolic/diastolic BP | |||||||||
a135/85 mm Hg (%) | 23.1 | 30.2 | 26.0 | 21.2 | 9.3 | <0.0001 | 25.3 | 17.3 | 0.0001 |
Technical issue on HBP measurement in the practice b | |||||||||
a. Which devices do you recommend when your patients measure HBP? | |||||||||
aUpper arm-cuff (%) | 78.3 | 87.8 | 90.1 | 89.4 | 88.7 | <0.0001 | 89.4 | 80.4 | <0.0001 |
b. How long HBP should be measured? | |||||||||
aFor life (%) | 57.5 | 57.3 | 56.4 | 52.5 | 56.5 | 0.56 | 57.6 | 49.3 | 0.0008 |
c. Which measurement frequency for HBP do you recommend to a patient in a week? | |||||||||
aEveryday (%) | 70.6 | 74.5 | 74.5 | 75.8 | 72.8 | 0.55 | 73.1 | 78.1 | 0.02 |
d. How many times HBP should be measured on each occasion? | |||||||||
aOnce (%) | 18.5 | 21.8 | 20.8 | 21.4 | 14.8 | 0.07 | 20.3 | 20.2 | 0.10 |
Evaluation of HBP measurements b | |||||||||
a. How do you instruct to document HBP measurement? | |||||||||
aAll (%) | 31.6 | 21.9 | 21.6 | 17.9 | 16.8 | <0.0001 | 22.1 | 19.6 | 0.23 |
b. How do you evaluate values obtained by the HBP measurement? | |||||||||
aMean(first) or Individual (%) | 61.3 | 67.5 | 65.6 | 64.5 | 67.3 | 0.36 | 66.2 | 63.1 | 0.20 |
Procedure for HBP measurement b | |||||||||
Optimal methods for HBP measurement | 7.7 | 15.7 | 13.9 | 10.4 | 10.4 | 0.001 | 13.5 | 9.3 | 0.01 |
