Home Blood Pressure Monitoring to Save Lives

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...

Closing the blood pressure gap: an affordable proposal to save lives worldwide

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Home monitoring of glucose and blood pressure.

Home monitoring of blood glucose and blood pressure levels can provide patients and physicians with valuable information in the management of diabetes mellitus and hypertension. Home monitoring allows patients to play an active role in their care and may improve treatment adherence and clinical outcomes. Glucose meters currently on the market produce results within 15 percent of serum blood glu...

Home blood pressure monitoring: international recognition.

M easurement of blood pressure outside of the clinic is recognized for providing superior accuracy in predicting future fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular and renal disease. The gold standard for these predictions is 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring that measures daytime and night-time pressures. 1 Home blood pressure monitoring has rapidly made progress because devices for recording...