Reply to Dr Myers' Commentary on the Use of Automated Blood Pressure Machines in Office Blood Pressure Measurements

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 540-540

  Hiremath, Swapnil ^a,b   Edwards, Cedric ^a   Mccormick, Brendan B ^a   Ruzicka, Marcel ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED OFFICE BLOOD PRESSURE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITOR; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MANUAL OFFICE BLOOD PRESSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; WHITE COAT HYPERTENSION; DEVICES; FEMALE; MALE; STANDARDS;

BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; WHITE COAT HYPERTENSION;

EID: 84904050357     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jch.12332     Document Type: Letter

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