Abstract: | Blood pressure (BP) monitoring is a clinical reality because of the availability of non-invasive automated recorders. BP 24-h patterns were explored during physiologic pregnancies in order to obtain time-qualified standards for clinical use. Non-inferential and inferential reference boundaries were computed by using chronobiometric procedures. The computed confidence limits provide a set of reference standards that serves to optimize the diagnosis of pregnancy-induced deviation in BP 24-h patterns. |