Self-monitoring of blood pressure at home: How many measurements are needed?

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 725-731

  Stergiou, George S ^a   Skeva, Irini I ^a   Zourbaki, Andromachi S ^a   Mountokalakis, Theodore D ^a  

^a SOTIRIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure; Home blood pressure; Reliability; Self measurement of blood pressure

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HOME MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0031861524     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004872-199816060-00002     Document Type: Article

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