Self-monitoring of blood pressure by patients at home (home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM))
is being increasingly used in many countries and is well accepted by hypertensive …

Age is the main clinical determinant of large artery stiffness. Central arteries stiffen progressively
with age, whereas peripheral muscular arteries change little with age. A number of …

In the last decade, the pathophysiology of microcirculation has become an actively developing
field of hypertension research, which we have felt it useful to review. An exact definition of …

Recommendations about therapy for hypertension are here preceded by some considerations
on the strength of available evidence on the benefits associated with antihypertensive …

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is being used increasingly in both clinical
practice and hypertension research. Although there are many guidelines that emphasize the …

… The criteria for fulfilling the BHS protocol are that devices must achieve at least grade B (where
A denotes greatest agreement with mercury standard and D denotes least agreement) for …

Given the increasing use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in both clinical
practice and hypertension research, a group of scientists, participating in the European …

… Parati, Gianfranco a ; Stergiou, George S b ; Asmar, Roland c ; Bilo, Grzegorz a ; de Leeuw,
Peter d ; Imai, Yutaka e ; Kario, Kazuomi f ; Lurbe, Empar g ; Manolis, Athanasios h ; Mengden …

The 2013 ESH/ESC guidelines continue to adhere to some fundamental principles that
inspired the 2003 and 2007 guidelines, namely (i) to base recommendations on properly …

• These guidelines are a concise summary of the more extensive ones prepared by the Expert
Committee appointed by the European Society of Hypertension and the European Society …