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Guidelines for blood pressure measurement: development over 30 years.
George S Stergiou1, Gianfranco Parati2,3, Richard J McManus4
1Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)
|July 14, 2018
Summary
Guidelines increasingly favor out-of-office blood pressure (BP) monitoring for hypertension diagnosis and management. Future efforts must integrate home and ambulatory BP monitoring into primary care and research reporting.
Area of Science:
- Cardiology
- Hypertension Management
- Clinical Guidelines
Background:
- Over the past 20 years, scientific societies have issued guidelines for blood pressure (BP) measurement.
- These guidelines emphasize the importance of out-of-office BP monitoring, including home and ambulatory methods.
- Recent recommendations position out-of-office BP evaluation as primary for hypertension diagnosis and treatment titration.
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