Recommendations for blood pressure measurement in humans and experimental animals. Part 1: Blood pressure measurement in humans: A statement for professionals from the subcommittee of professional and public education of the American Heart Association council on high blood pressure research

Hypertension

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 142-161

  Pickering, Thomas G ^a   Hall, John E ^a   Appel, Lawrence J ^a   Falkner, Bonita E ^a   Graves, John ^a   Hill, Martha N ^a   Jones, Daniel W ^a   Kurtz, Theodore ^a   Sheps, Sheldon G ^a   Roccella, Edward J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Ambulatory monitoring; Hypertension; Self measurement

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ACCURACY; AMBULATORY MONITORING; AUSCULTATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CUFF; DEVICE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MONITOR; OBESITY; OSCILLOMETRY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF EXAMINATION; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; STAFF TRAINING; TRANSDUCER; WHITE COAT HYPERTENSION;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; AUSCULTATION; AUTOMATION; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORS; CALIBRATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OSCILLOMETRY; POSTURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; SELF CARE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 19944429836     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000150859.47929.8e     Document Type: Review

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