Abstract
Hypertension is the leading cause of mortality throughout Asia. Home blood pressure monitoring has the potential to improve hypertension control and is a useful adjunct to conventional office blood pressure measurements due to its diagnostic accuracy and prognostic value in predicting cardiovascular outcomes. At present, there are no region-specific guidelines addressing the use of home blood pressure monitoring in Asia. Therefore, an expert panel was convened to address the use of home blood pressure monitoring and develop key recommendations to help guide clinical practice throughout the Asia region. The resulting recommendations support the use of home blood pressure monitoring with a validated device as an accurate adjunct for diagnosing hypertension and predicting cardiovascular outcome. Diagnosis and treatment of hypertension should still be guided by conventional office/clinic blood pressure measurements. The expert panel encourages the incorporation of home blood pressure monitoring into local clinical guidelines and offers practical recommendations to ensure continuity of care where a validated home blood pressure device is not available.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 249-258 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Journal of Human Hypertension |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 Apr 1 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Funding The development of this article was made possible through a grant from the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (Grant Number: HI13C0715); and a grant from the Foundation for Development of the Community (Tochigi, Japan). Editorial and writing support was provided by Howard Christian and Chris Facey of MIMS (Hong Kong) Limited and was funded by Pfizer. The meeting during which these recommendations were formulated and discussed was made possible by an unrestricted educational grant from Pfizer. However, the recommendations were developed by the HOPE Asia Network independently of Pfizer.
Funding Information:
The development of this article was made possible through a grant from the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (Grant Number: HI13C0715); and a grant from the Foundation for Development of the Community (Tochigi, Japan). Editorial and writing support was provided by Howard Christian and Chris Facey of MIMS (Hong Kong) Limited and was funded by Pfizer. The meeting during which these recommendations were formulated and discussed was made possible by an unrestricted educational grant from Pfizer. However, the recommendations were developed by the HOPE Asia Network independently of Pfizer.
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Internal Medicine