Background Blood pressure (BP) thresholds for diagnosing and managing hypertension vary for office, home, and ambulatory readings, and between guideline documents.
Kazuomi Kario +7 more
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Frequent fruit consumption has been associated with lower office blood pressure. Less is known about associations between fruit consumption and home blood pressure.
Edvin Ström +3 more
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Blood pressure control by home monitoring : meta-analysis of randomised trials [PDF]
Objective To determine the effect of home blood pressure monitoring on blood pressure levels and proportion of people with essential hypertension achieving targets. Design Meta-analysis of 18 randomised controlled trials.
Cappuccio, Francesco +3 more
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Community based trial of home blood pressure monitoring with nurse-led telephone support in patients with stroke or transient ischaemic attack recently discharged from hospital. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: High blood pressure in patients with stroke increases the risk of recurrence but management in the community is often inadequate. Home blood pressure monitoring may increase patients' involvement in their care, increase compliance, and reduce
Conroy, R +5 more
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Using a smartphone app to identify signs of pre-eclampsia and/or worsening blood pressure [PDF]
Background Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy complicate 10% of pregnancies and can have serious consequences. Aims To explore the experiences of pregnant women with a history of hypertension using an innovative home blood pressure monitoring ...
Kay, L., Khalil, A., Sheehan, E.
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Healthy Living: Monitoring Blood Pressure at Home
FCS8882, a 2-page fact sheet by Karla P. Shelnutt, provides instructions and explanations of blood pressure readings, along with a blank blood pressure log. Published by the UF Department of Family Youth and Community Sciences, November 2009.
Karla P. Shelnutt
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Blood pressure differences between home monitoring and daytime ambulatory values and their reproducibility in treated hypertensive stroke and TIA patients [PDF]
Background: Guidelines recommend ambulatory or home blood pressure monitoring to improve hypertension diagnosis and monitoring. Both these methods are ascribed the same threshold values, but whether they produce similar results has not been established ...
Clark, Allan B +3 more
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Home Blood Pressure Management Intervention in Low- to Middle-Income Countries: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Control of hypertension in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is poor, often less than 10%. A strong body of evidence demonstrates that home blood pressure management lowers blood pressure, and recent guidelines from the National ...
Anderson, Cheryl +11 more
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Background Home blood pressure is a more accurate prognosticator than office blood pressure and allows the observation of day‐to‐day blood pressure variability.
Michihiro Satoh +14 more
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Interpreting and acting upon home blood pressure readings: A qualitative study [PDF]
This article is made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund. Copyright @ 2013 Vasileiou et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://
Barnett, J, Vasileiou, K, Young, T
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