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ReviewJournal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)2021

Office blood pressure measurement: A comprehensive review.

Saulat Siddique, Aamir Hameed Khan, Hunaina Shahab, Yu-Qing Zhang, Jam Chin Tay, Peera Buranakitjaroen, Yuda Turana, Narsingh Verma, Chen-Huan Chen, Hao-Min Cheng and 4 more

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Review in Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Office blood pressure measurement: A comprehensive review.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Saulat SiddiquePunjab Medical Center, Lahore, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-1294-0430
Aamir Hameed KhanSection of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.
Hunaina ShahabAdvanced Cardiac Imaging, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, MSSM-MSSLW, New York, NY, USA.
Yu-Qing ZhangDivisions of Hypertension and Heart Failure, Fu Wai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8142-8305
Jam Chin TayDepartment of General Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0001-7657-4383
Peera BuranakitjaroenDivision of Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Yuda TuranaSchool of Medicine and Health Sciences, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.ORCID 0000-0003-4527-0285
Narsingh VermaDepartment of Physiology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India.ORCID 0000-0003-0348-7419
Chen-Huan ChenInstitute of Public Health and Community Medicine Research Center, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-9262-0287
Hao-Min ChengFaculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-3885-6600
Tzung-Dau WangDepartment of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei City, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-7180-3607
Huynh Van MinhDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue University, Vietnam.ORCID 0000-0003-4273-4187
Yook-Chin ChiaDepartment of Medical Sciences, School of Healthcare and Medical Sciences, Sunway University, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0003-1995-0359
Kazuomi KarioDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-8251-4480

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The conventional auscultatory methods for measuring blood pressure have been used to screen, diagnose, and manage hypertension since long. However, these have been found to be prone to errors especially the white coat phenomena which cause falsely high blood pressure readings. The Mercury sphygmomanometer and the Aneroid variety are no longer recommended by WHO for varying reasons. The Oscillometric devices are now recommended with preference for the Automated Office Blood Pressure measurement device which was found to have readings nearest to the Awake Ambulatory Blood Pressure readings. The downside for this device is the cost barrier. The alternative is to use the simple oscillometric device, which is much cheaper, with the rest and isolation criteria of the SPRINT study. This too may be difficult due to space constraints and the post-clinic blood measurement is a new concept worth further exploration.

Indexed as

Blood Pressure Monitoring, AmbulatoryHypertensionAutomationBlood PressureBlood Pressure DeterminationHumansAOBPclinic BPoffice BPoscillometric devices

Identifiers

PMID33420745
PMCPMC8029522

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