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Home Versus Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring

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Home Blood Pressure Monitoring

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Office blood pressure (BP) measurement has been shown to be an unreliable indicator of true BP and although it remains the commonest method of measurement, recent guidelines recommend its use for screening only with diagnostic and management decisions being made with out-of-office measurement techniques, either using 24-h ambulatory BP measurement (ABPM) or home BP measurement (HBPM). The purpose of this brief review is to highlight the benefits each technique can bring to the diagnosis and management of patients with hypertension.

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Acknowledgment

Conflict of Interest: EOB, GP, and GS have conducted validation studies for various manufacturers and advised manufacturers on device development. ASM—has advised manufacturers on device development. EM—no conflict of interest. RM—has received BP monitors for research from Omron.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. The Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Eoin O’Brien

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Mutua Terrassa, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

    Alex de la Sierra

  3. Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Oxford, UK

    Richard J. McManus

  4. Cardiovascular & Hormonal Research Laboratory, Department of Cardiology and Kolling Institute, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia

    Anastasia Mihailidou

  5. Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Anastasia Mihailidou

  6. Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Paul Muntner

  7. Department of Cardiology, Schulich Heart Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Martin G. Myers

  8. Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Martin G. Myers

  9. Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece

    George S. Stergiou

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

    Gianfranco Parati

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

    Gianfranco Parati

  12. Department of Clinical Therapeutics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Alexandra Hospital,, Athens, Greece

    Efstathios Manios

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  1. Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece

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  2. Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, Milano, Italy

    Gianfranco Parati

  3. University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

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O’Brien, E. et al. (2020). Home Versus Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring. 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_15

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