Evolution of target organ damage by different values of self-blood pressure measurement in untreated hypertensive patients.

Background: To determine the prognostic value of various self-blood pressure (BP) monitoring (SBPM) cutoff at the time of diagnosis.

Methods: Cohort of 466 newly diagnosed and never-treated hypertensive patients. At baseline and at 1 year, the patients underwent a physical examination, clinic BP (CBP), SBPM, and ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM), fasting blood and urine analysis, electrocardiogram (ECG), and retinography.

[Home blood pressure self-monitoring. Influence of the mean calculation used on the diagnosis of white-coat hypertension].

Objective: To describe the variations in the diagnosis performance of home blood pressure self-monitoring (hBPSM) with different methods for mean calculation, in order to diagnose white-coat hypertension (WCH).

Design: Multi-centre, descriptive, and comparative study to assess the diagnosis performance of a test method.

Setting: Four primary health care centres.