Home Blood Pressure Monitoring and Hypertension Control

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...

[Assessment of resistant hypertension with home blood pressure monitoring].

BACKGROUND ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is considered the gold standard for the diagnostic confirmation of resistant hypertension (RH). However, home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) has been considered an option, because of its lower cost and greater comfort. OBJECTIVE to compare the values obtained by HBPM with those obtained by ABPM in the identification of patients with res...

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...