title: [Measuring blood pressure].
abstract: High blood pressure is one of the main factors which lead to cardiovascular cerebral-vascular and kidney diseases; therefore, nursing professionals should have enough basic knowledge to enable them to carry out a precocious diagnosis and correct follow-up procedures. Although students in nursing schools are taught how to correctly measure blood pressure, often this teaching does not meet the recommendations provided by different national and international guidelines. Thus it is important to know how to use the correct methodology to measure blood pressure.
authors.affiliation: Unidad hipertensión, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona.
authors.forename: Dolors
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Estrada Reventos
authors.forename: Ester
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pujol Navarro
mesh_terms: D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans