What is the optimal cut-off threshold in self-home blood pressure measurement?: A cohort study according to STROBE statement.

Two aspects arise concerning the use of self-measured blood pressure monitoring to diagnose white-coat hypertension (WCH): the presence of target organ damage (TOD) and the normal cut-off threshold. This study aims to evaluate the cardiovascular risk of WCH according to different self-measured blood pressure normal cut-off thresholds and the influence of TOD at baseline.In all, 678 patients were followed for 6.

Effect of effervescent paracetamol on blood pressure: a crossover randomized clinical trial.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of effervescent paracetamol on office and ambulatory blood pressure (BP) compared with noneffervescent paracetamol in hypertensive patients.

Design: This was a multicenter open crossover randomized clinical trial.

Setting: Primary care centers in Catalonia and the Basque Country.

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.

Isolated clinical hypertension diagnosis: self-home BP, ambulatory BP monitoring, or both simultaneously?

Unlabelled: Self-blood pressure (BP) measurement (SBPM) and ambulatory BP measurement (ABPM) are suitable for the isolated clinical hypertension (ICH) or 'white-coat' hypertension diagnosis. However, patients with ICH have a different cardiovascular risk according to the measurement technique used for the diagnosis.

Objective: To describe baseline cardiovascular risk of patients with hypertension and with ICH according to SBPM and daytime ABPM.

[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.