The Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) published recommendations for
blood pressure (BP) measurement in 2003 and a guideline for home BP measurement in 2008.
Ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) has become a subject of considerable
scientific interest with >10 000 articles listed on
PubMed in 2012. In 2001, the Center for Medicare
and Medicaid Services in the United States approved ABPM for
reimbursement
for the identification of subjects with white-coat
hypertension, and in 2011, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom recommended that ABPM
should be offered as a cost-effective technique to all people suspected of having hypertension.
Hypertension.
2013;
62:
988-994
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