Home blood pressure monitoring: A suitable evaluation tool for probe designed trials. Cosima study

Home blood pressure monitoring: a tool for better hypertension control.

Home blood pressure (BP) measurements enjoy a growing popularity in medical practice for several reasons. One, self-measured BP in the home environment is much less affected by the so-called white coat effect than BP values obtained by a doctor or a nurse in the clinic environment.1,2 This makes home BP closer to BP values prevailing in daily life. By minimizing the highly variable cardiovascul...

Home blood pressure monitoring.

Home blood pressure monitoring.

Home blood pressure monitoring Shah and colleagues found patients with heart failure who lived in areas of socioeconomic deprivation were less likely than those in more affluent areas to be treated with recommended beta blockers. 1 We recently investigated use of home blood pressure (BP) monitoring in stroke patients registered at a deprived inner city general practice in Lambeth. In March 2008...

Generalisability of trials of home blood pressure monitoring; a comparison of two UK primary care trials

Objective Blood pressure (BP) monitors are widely available and easy for patients to use. Systematic reviews [1-3] show that home monitoring of BP improves BP control but there is significant heterogeneity between studies, and meta regression has only been able to explain part of the heterogeneity, with concomitant interventions being a possible factor. Most evidence comes from trials of patien...

Editorial Commentary Home Blood Pressure Monitoring A Tool for Better Hypertension Control

Home blood pressure (BP) measurements enjoy a growing popularity in medical practice for several reasons. One, self-measured BP in the home environment is much less affected by the so-called white coat effect than BP values obtained by a doctor or a nurse in the clinic environment.1,2 This makes home BP closer to BP values prevailing in daily life. By minimizing the highly variable cardiovascul...