title: Validation of the Tensoval Duo Control II blood pressure monitor for clinic use and self-measurement according to the British Hypertension Society protocol and the European Society of Hypertension International Protocol Revision 2010.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The Tensoval Duo Control II is an automated upper arm device that uses a combination of oscillometric and auscultatory technology to determine blood pressure noninvasively. The accuracy of this device was assessed according to the British Hypertension Society (BHS) protocol and the European Society of Hypertension International Protocol revision 2010 (ESH-IP2) in an adult population.
  
  
  METHODS
  Ethical approval was obtained. Eighty-five and 33 adult individuals, respectively, were recruited to fulfil the requirements of each protocol. Trained observers took nine sequential same-arm measurements alternating between a mercury sphygmomanometer and the device. The device had to achieve at least a B grade for both systolic and diastolic pressures to pass the BHS protocol and had to fulfil the criteria of all three phases of the ESH-IP2 protocol to receive recommendation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The device achieved an A/A grading for the BHS protocol and passed all three phases of the ESH-IP2 protocol. The mean difference±SD for the BHS/ESH protocols, respectively, was -1.8±6.5/-0.7±5.7 mmHg for systolic pressure and 1.9±5.1/2.4±4.5 mmHg for diastolic pressure. The device maintained its A/A grading throughout the low-pressure, medium-pressure and high-pressure ranges.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Tensoval Duo Control II device is recommended for clinical and home use according to both the BHS and the ESH-IP2 standard.
authors: Women's Health Academic Centre, King's Health Partners, King's College London, London, UK.
authors: Annemarie
authors: A
authors: de Greeff
authors: Andrew H
authors: AH
authors: Shennan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D015924:Blood Pressure Monitors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension; D008297:Male; D015588:Observer Variation; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012955:Societies, Medical; D006113:United Kingdom