B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Home Blood Pressure as Predictor of Adverse Health Outcomes
Authors: Kei Asayama, Teemu J. Niiranen, Takayoshi Ohkubo, George S. Stergiou, Lutgarde Thijs, Yutaka Imai, Jan A. Staessen
Editors: Stergiou G., Parati G., Mancia G.
Publication year: 2020
Book title : Home Blood Pressure Monitoring
First page : 33
Last page: 43
ISBN: 978-3-030-23064-7
eISBN: 978-3-030-23065-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23065-4_4
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.