Why the study?
Does increasing the number of home blood pressure measurement days improve the prediction of cardiovascular events and diagnostic accuracy in randomly recruited participants?
Population
4,802 randomly recruited participants from three populations
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
8.3 years
Authors
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May support single home BP for event prediction in cohorts; leaves open days needed for reliable hypertension diagnosis.
Does increasing the number of home blood pressure measurement days improve the prediction of cardiovascular events and diagnostic accuracy in randomly recruited participants?
A single home blood pressure measurement is sufficient to predict cardiovascular risk, but seven days of measurements are required for reliable hypertension diagnosis.
Niiranen et al. (2014) studied this question.
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