… Aware of this problem, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI)
published standards for electronic and aneroid sphygmomanometers in 1987, which …

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 …

Thirty years ago, John French wrote a seminal review describing the unique properties of
the arterial intima. 1 His major point was that the smooth muscle cells of the intima have a …

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

Background Mortality statistics are fundamental to public health decision making. Mortality
varies by time and location, and its measurement is affected by well known biases that have …

Background The lowering of cholesterol concentrations in individuals at high risk of cardiovascular
disease improves outcome. No study, however, has assessed benefits of cholesterol …

Background The apparent shortfall in prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) noted in
early hypertension trials has been attributed to disadvantages of the diuretics and β blockers …

Background The mechanisms by which hypertension causes vascular events are unclear.
Guidelines for diagnosis and treatment focus only on underlying mean blood pressure. We …

It is often claimed that we do not understand the forces driving the global diversity gradient.
However, an extensive literature suggests that contemporary climate constrains terrestrial …

The purpose of this study was to determine if ambulatory blood pressure measurement predicted
total and cardiovascular mortality over and beyond clinic blood pressure measurement …