Home blood pressure measurement has a stronger predictive power for mortality than does screening blood pressure measurement: A population-based observation in Ohasama, Japan

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 971-975

  Ohkubo, Takayoshi ^a   Imai, Yutaka ^a   Tsuji, Ichiro ^a   Nagai, Kenichi ^b   Kato, Junko ^a   Kikuchi, Noriko ^a   Nishiyama, Akimitsu ^a   Aihara, Akiko ^a   Sekino, Makoto ^a   Kikuya, Masahiro ^a   Ito, Sadayoshi ^a   Satoh, Hiroshi ^a   Hisamichi, Shigeru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Ohasama Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Home blood pressure; Mortality; Population based subjects; Prospective study; Screening blood pressure

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOME MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 7344248984     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004872-199816070-00010     Document Type: Article

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