[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 predictors of both substitute or intermediate cardiovascular outcomes such as cardiovascular morbidity and mortality1. In addition, both methods can also evaluate conditions so far under less extensive research, such as the white coat syndrome, blood pressure behavior during sleep, masked hypertension, and early morning surge.2