Hypertension in the elderly: which are the blood pressure threshold values?
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[Which threshold values should be recommended in ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and self blood pressure monitoring?].
New methods to evaluate blood pressure – such as ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) and home monitoring of blood pressure (HMBP), have been increasingly more used in clinical practice as key source of additional information to the traditional evaluation of blood pressure measuring at the doctor’s office. There is a growing body of evidence available to show that both methods are strong...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Heart Journal Supplements
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1520-765X,1554-2815
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/suz023