The diastolic debate: is it time to discard Korotkoff phase IV in favour of phase V for blood pressure measurements in pregnancy?
- 1 August 1998
- journal article
- viewpoint
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 169 (4) , 203-205
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1998.tb140223.x
Abstract
Current guidelines recommend using Korotkoff phase IV for measuring diastolic blood pressure in pregnant women. However, phase IV does not approximate “true” blood pressure as closely as phase V, is ...Keywords
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