Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • Practice Point
  • Published:

Solving the paradox of self blood-pressure measurement

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine volume 5, pages 306–307 (2008)Cite this article

Verberk WJ et al. for the Home Versus Office Measurement, Reduction of Unnecessary Treatment Study Investigators (2007) Self-measurement of blood pressure at home reduces the need for antihypertensive drugs: a randomized, controlled trial. Hypertension 50: 1019–1025

Background

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

References

  1. Moore CR et al. (1997) Confirmation or exclusion of stage I hypertension by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. Hypertension 29: 1109–1113

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Lewington S et al. for the Prospective Studies Collaboration (2002) Age-specific relevance of usual blood pressure to vascular mortality: a meta-analysis of individual data for one million adults in 61 prospective studies. Lancet 360: 1903–1913

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Mengden T et al. (1998) Reliability of reporting self-measured blood pressure values by hypertensive patients. Am J Hypertens 11: 1413–1417

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. Mancia G et al. (2007) 2007 ESH-ESC Practice Guidelines for the Management of Arterial Hypertension: ESH-ESC Task Force on the Management of Arterial Hypertension. J Hypertens 25: 1105–1187

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

The synopsis was written by Alexandra King, Associate Editor, Nature Clinical Practice.

Author information

Author notes

  1. Heart and Vascular Center of Excellence, Memorial Medical Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Room S3–434, 55 Lake Street North, Worcester, MA 01655, USA phillipr@ummhc.org

Authors and Affiliations

  1. RA Phillips is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Heart and Vascular Center of Excellence at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.,

    Robert A Phillips

Authors
  1. Robert A Phillips
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The author declares no competing financial interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Phillips, R. Solving the paradox of self blood-pressure measurement. Nat Rev Cardiol 5, 306–307 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpcardio1207

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpcardio1207

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing