Blood pressure measurements are unreliable to diagnose hypertension in primary care

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 509-517

  Sebo, Paul ^a   Pechère Bertschi, Antoinette ^b,c   Herrmann, François R ^d   Haller, Dagmar M ^a,b,d   Bovier, Patrick ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Primary Care and Emergency Medicine ^*  (Switzerland)

^c Hypertension and Nutrition   (Switzerland)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^e Primary Care Practice   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blood pressure measurement; Inaccuracy; Primary care; Unreliability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCIENTIST; STUDENT T TEST; SWITZERLAND; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84894078435     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: 14735598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000000058     Document Type: Article

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