The Choice of Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Device Matters: Differences between Three Commercial Monitors Used in Finnish General Practice

The Choice of Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Device Matters: Differences between Three Commercial Monitors Used in Finnish General Practice

The use of home measurement in the follow-up of antihypertensive treatment is rapidly increasing. Compared with office blood pressure (BP) measurement home blood pressure monitoring provides better reproducibility, freedom from white coat effect and observer bias [1,2]. Home BP measurement results correlate better to end organ damage than the office measurement and home BP control overcomes man...

An Assessment of the Accuracy of Home Blood Pressure Monitors When Used in Device Owners.

OBJECTIVE To examine the accuracy of home blood pressure (BP) devices, on their owners, compared to auscultatory reference standard BP measurements. METHODS Eighty-five consecutive consenting subjects ≥18 years of age, who owned an oscillometric home BP device (wrist or upper-arm device), with BP levels between 80-220/50-120 mm Hg, and with arm circumferences between 25-43 cm were studied. Pr...

Home blood pressure monitoring: its effect on the management of hypertension in general practice.

BACKGROUND Ambulatory and home blood pressure monitoring have been shown to improve the management of hypertension. Either can be used to diagnose 'white coat hypertension' (WCH), which affects 10% to 20% of hypertensives and usually does not require drug treatment. Home monitoring has been used little in primary care. AIM To investigate the use and acceptability of home monitoring, and to es...

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

Home blood pressure monitoring.