Self monitoring of blood pressure at home: Primary care professionals remain sceptical

Self monitoring of blood pressure at home.

[Guidelines for self-monitoring of blood pressure at home].

UNLABELLED Home blood pressure (BP) measurements are indispensable for the improvement of hypertension management in medical practice as well as for the recognition of hypertension in the population. The Working Group for Establishment of Guidelines for Measurement Procedures of Self-Monitoring of Blood Pressure at Home of the Japanese Society of Hypertension has established standards for all t...

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...