Cited by 64Blood Pressure and Hypertension StudiesCardiovascular Health and Disease PreventionNon-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring

Office Blood Pressure Measurement: The Weak Cornerstone of Hypertension Diagnosis

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Stergiou, George, Kollias, Anastasios, Parati, Gianfranco, O’Brien, Eoin·2018·Hypertension

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  • Standardization of blood pressure measurement is not implemented in most clinical practices, because its importance is underappreciated and the required steps are seen as time-consuming and impractical.

    “Despite these efforts, standardization is not implemented in most clinical practices18 because its importance is often underappreciated, and the necessary steps are considered time-consuming and impractical.23”

    From International Consensus on Standardized Clinic Blood Pressure Measurement – A Call to Action (2023) · cites this paper as [18]

    In “Types and Fallacies of OBP” (page unavailable), the paper says standardization has been ignored for too long and describes general-practice measurements as unstandardized. It also says one automated approach requires additional resources and may not suit all settings, but it does not say that clinicians regard the necessary steps as time-consuming or impractical, or establish the reasons for nonimplementation across most practices. (LLM, conf=0.79)

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  • Clinical practice guidelines and position statements have provided detailed instructions on clinic blood pressure measurement for several decades.

    “For several decades, clinical practice guidelines9–17 and position statements18–22 have provided detailed instructions on clinic BP measurement.”

    From International Consensus on Standardized Clinic Blood Pressure Measurement – A Call to Action (2023) · cites this paper as [18]

    The opening section discusses the 2017 US guideline’s recommendation on office blood pressure measurement, and the Conclusions describe a measurement method. Neither passage says that guidelines and position statements have provided detailed clinic-measurement instructions for several decades; a search for position statements and historical recommendations found no such passage. Page numbers were not supplied in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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Authors
Stergiou, G., Kollias, A., Parati, G., & O’Brien, E.
Affiliations
  • University College Dublin (IE)
  • From the Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece (G.S., A.K.); Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy (G.P.); Cardiology Unit and Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, S. Luca Hospital, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milano, Italy (G.P.); and The Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland (E.O.).
Venue
Hypertension
Published
2018-05
Volume
71
Issue
5
Pages
813-815
ISSN
  • 0194-911X (ISSN-L)
  • 1524-4563
OpenAlex
W2789653245
Cited by
64
References
11
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 10
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Hypertension (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
Keywords
office blood pressure measurement, blood pressure measurement, hypertension diagnosis, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
MeSH terms
Blood Pressure, Blood Pressure Determination, Humans, Hypertension

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