Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 2022; 119(2): 353-357
Home Blood Pressure Monitoring and Blood Pressure Control in Treated Hypertensives
Andréa Araujo Brandão
, Weimar Kunz Sebba Barroso
, Audes Feitosa, Eduardo Costa Duarte Barbosa
, Roberto Dischinger Miranda, Priscila Valverde de Oliveira Vitorino
, Roberto Pozzan
, Lucio Paulo Ribeiro, Abraham Epelman, Giovanni Alves Saraiva, Fabio Serra Silveira, Antônio Almeida Braga, Marco Mota Gomes
Introduction
Blood pressure (BP) control rates are very low in Brazil and in the world, around 20% only.– Patients with uncontrolled hypertension despite treatment remain at high risk for cardiovascular (CV) events and mortality, comparably to untreated individuals.
According to recent recommendations,,,, BP control should be monitored by both office BP and out-of-office BP measurements. In this way, it is possible to determine different hypertension phenotypes,,,, which is very important to determine the prognosis and individualized therapy.,,-
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