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Home Blood Pressure Telemonitoring: Conventional Approach and Perspectives from Mobile Health Technology

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Home Blood Pressure Monitoring

Part of the book series: Updates in Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection ((UHCP))

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Blood pressure telemonitoring (BPT) allows remote transmission of patients’ BP values from their home or the community setting, to the doctor’s office or hospital. Evidence from several clinical trials has supported the efficacy of BPT in improving patients’ compliance and adherence to antihypertensive treatment and in achieving hypertension control, with the consequent possibility to improve cardiovascular protection by preventing the adverse consequences associated with elevated BP levels. Until a few years ago, computer-tailored solutions were the main approach to BPT. In recent years, however, the widespread use of smartphone technologies along with the development of related applications for BP monitoring and remote transmission, have made also possible to implement and deliver BPT via mobile phones (mHealth). This chapter will review the clinical relevance of BPT, either when using computer-based or m-health strategies, addressing important methodological aspects for its clinical application, the evidence on their effects on BP levels and achievement of hypertension control, as well as their advantages and limitations for the overall management and follow-up of hypertension and the yet pending issues to be addressed in future studies.

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Disclosure: SO is scientific consultant of Biotechmed Ltd. provider of telemedicine services.

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  1. Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Gianfranco Parati

  2. Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, Milan, Italy

    Gianfranco Parati

  3. Department of Cardiovascular Neural and Metabolic Sciences, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Milan, Italy

    Juan Eugenio Ochoa, Dario Pellegrini & Camilla Torlasco

  4. Hypertension Unit ESH Excellence Center, Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France

    Nicolas Postel-Vinay

  5. Clinical Research Unit, Italian Institute of Telemedicine, Solbiate Arno, Varese, Italy

    Stefano Omboni

  6. Scientifc Research Department of Cardiology, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation

    Stefano Omboni

  7. Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Richard J. McManus

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Parati, G. et al. (2020). Home Blood Pressure Telemonitoring: Conventional Approach and Perspectives from Mobile Health Technology. In: Stergiou, G., Parati, G., Mancia, G. (eds) Home Blood Pressure Monitoring. Updates in Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23065-4_11

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