B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book

Home Blood Pressure as Predictor of Adverse Health Outcomes




AuthorsKei Asayama, Teemu J. Niiranen, Takayoshi Ohkubo, George S. Stergiou, Lutgarde Thijs, Yutaka Imai, Jan A. Staessen

EditorsStergiou G., Parati G., Mancia G.

Publication year2020

Book title Home Blood Pressure Monitoring

First page 33

Last page43

ISBN978-3-030-23064-7

eISBN978-3-030-23065-4

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23065-4_4


Abstract

For more than 30 years, studies highlighting the prognostic accuracy of the self-measured home blood pressure in populations and patients have paved the way for the widespread clinical application of this approach. Blood pressure self-measurement offers several of the well-recognized advantages of the more complex approach of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. The home blood pressure outperforms the office blood pressure in the prediction of death and cardiovascular complications. Cross-classification of patients based on office and home blood pressure refines risk stratification. This chapter makes the point that self-measurement of the blood pressure at home is required to stop the hypertension epidemic and later adverse cardiovascular events.



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