Open AccessGuidelines for blood pressure measurement: development over 30 years
Author(s) -
Stergiou George S.,
Parati Gianfranco,
McManus Richard J.,
Head Geoffrey A.,
Myers Martin G.,
Whelton Paul K.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the journal of clinical hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1751-7176
pISSN - 1524-6175
DOI - 10.1111/jch.13295
Subject(s) - medicine , ambulatory , ambulatory blood pressure , primary care , blood pressure , intensive care medicine , medical emergency , family medicine , surgery
In the last 2 decades, several scientific societies have published specific guidelines for blood pressure ( BP ) measurement, providing detailed recommendations for office, home, and ambulatory BP monitoring. These documents typically provided strong support for using out‐of‐office BP monitoring (ambulatory and home). More recently, several organizations recommended out‐of‐office BP evaluation as a primary method for diagnosing hypertension and for treatment titration, with office BP regarded as a screening method. Efforts should now be directed towards making ambulatory and home BP monitoring readily available in primary care and ensuring that such measurements are obtained by following current guidelines. Moreover, it should be mandatory for all published clinical research papers on hypertension to provide details on the methodology of the BP measurement.