Can improved software facilitate the wider use of ambulatory blood pressure measurement in clinical practice?
It is feasible to design a software program to provide a standardized plotting format for ABPM, a basic analysis of data for day-to-day clinical work, or elaborate analyses for research, and an interpretative report to assist diagnosis and to provide an educational process for doctors and nurses not familiar with the technique.
It is found that there was an alteration of sensitization in 4/10 children at the end of the average 4-year period. The presence of family atopy, the presence of allergic rhinitis and serum total IgE elevation were risk factors for the development of new sensitization. On the other hand sensitization to multiple allergens was risk factors for the loss of sensitization.