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Pharmacists’ knowledge of automated blood pressure devices

Journal of Human Hypertension volume 36, pages 1027–1028 (2022)Cite this article

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Pharmacists need to consider the accuracy of automated blood pressure (BP) devices. However, Picone et al. reported that pharmacists had low awareness regarding the accuracy of automated BP devices. We agreed their suggestion that education of pharmacists and advocacy for policies are required to ensure that pharmacists sell only validated BP devices as they are primary providers of BP devices.

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  1. Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Aoi Noda & Taku Obara

  2. Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

    Aoi Noda & Taku Obara

  3. Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan

    Aoi Noda & Taku Obara

  4. Tohoku Institute for Management of Blood Pressure, Sendai, Japan

    Yutaka Imai

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AN and TO contributed to design this study. TO and YI contributed to data collection. AN and TO contributed to data analysis and interpretation. AN contributed to the drafting of the manuscript. TO and YI provided advice regarding critically important intellectual content and helped to draft the paper.

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Correspondence to Taku Obara.

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YI concurrently held the position of director of the Tohoku Institute for Management of Blood Pressure, supported by Omron Healthcare. None of the other authors has a competing interests.

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Noda, A., Obara, T. & Imai, Y. Pharmacists’ knowledge of automated blood pressure devices. J Hum Hypertens 36, 1027–1028 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41371-022-00746-1

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