Home blood pressure monitoring.
Hypertension is estimated to affect 43 to 56 million adults or 24% to 31% of the US population and is emerging as a major health problem in some countries in the Third World. Hypertension contributes to all the major atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease outcomes.
Yarows
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Division of Hypertension, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, USA. syarows@umich.edu
Julius
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Pickering
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D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory; D015924:Blood Pressure Monitors; D006801:Humans; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results