Affiliations 

  • 1 Punjab Medical Center, Lahore, Pakistan
  • 2 Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
  • 3 Advanced Cardiac Imaging, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, MSSM-MSSLW, New York, NY, USA
  • 4 Divisions of Hypertension and Heart Failure, Fu Wai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
  • 5 Department of General Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
  • 6 Division of Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 7 School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • 8 Department of Physiology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India
  • 9 Institute of Public Health and Community Medicine Research Center, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 10 Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 11 Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei City, Taiwan
  • 12 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue University, Vietnam
  • 13 Department of Medical Sciences, School of Healthcare and Medical Sciences, Sunway University, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia
  • 14 Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich), 2021 03;23(3):440-449.
PMID: 33420745 DOI: 10.1111/jch.14169

Abstract

The conventional auscultatory methods for measuring blood pressure have been used to screen, diagnose, and manage hypertension since long. However, these have been found to be prone to errors especially the white coat phenomena which cause falsely high blood pressure readings. The Mercury sphygmomanometer and the Aneroid variety are no longer recommended by WHO for varying reasons. The Oscillometric devices are now recommended with preference for the Automated Office Blood Pressure measurement device which was found to have readings nearest to the Awake Ambulatory Blood Pressure readings. The downside for this device is the cost barrier. The alternative is to use the simple oscillometric device, which is much cheaper, with the rest and isolation criteria of the SPRINT study. This too may be difficult due to space constraints and the post-clinic blood measurement is a new concept worth further exploration.

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