Home blood pressure monitoring: Primary role in hypertension management

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Stergiou, George S ^a   Kollias, Anastasios ^a   Zeniodi, Marilena ^a   Karpettas, Nikos ^a   Ntineri, Angeliki ^a  

^a SOTIRIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Ambulatory blood pressure; Decision making; Diagnosis; Self measurement; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; FOLLOW UP; HOME MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MASKED HYPERTENSION; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; TELEMONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFECTS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION;

EID: 84902038434     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: 15343111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-014-0462-8     Document Type: Article

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