[Outpatient self-monitoring of arterial pressure]

Approaches to home self-monitoring of arterial pressure (AP) are reviewed. Such monitoring is cost effective, facilitates adjustment of antihypertensive treatment, assessment of the response. The perspectives of AP self-monitoring lie in learning at "schools for hypertensive patients" that promotes control of hypertension using regular adequate treatment; in design of standards for such monitoring, in perfection of its techniques; in application of monitoring results in cardiovascular research.