title: [How to integrate blood pressure self-monitoring in the management of the hypertensive patient].
abstract: Blood pressure measurement is the cornerstone of the diagnosis and follow up of arterial hypertension. Because of its large variability, the office blood pressure measurement can hardly be trusted. The blood pressure self measurement allows more precisely to select the hypertensive patients (BP > 135/85 mmHg), to follow with more accuracy patients with important blood pressure variability and to check the efficacy of antihypertensive treatment. The self blood pressure measurement is at the early stage of its scientific period of development but requires the use of strictly validated devices which only measure the blood pressure at the brachial level.
authors.affiliation: Agrégé du Service de Néphrologie et Hypertension artérielle, CHU Liège.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Krzesinski
mesh_terms: D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D012648:Self Care