Hung-Ju Lin, Tzung-Dau Wang, Michael Yu-Chih Chen, Chien-Yi Hsu, Kang-Ling Wang, Chin-Chou Huang, Ming-Jer Hsieh, Yu-Wei Chiu, Liang-Ting Chiang, Wen-Po Chuang, Pai-Feng Hsu, Chun-Hsien Wu, Chi-Sheng Hung, Kuan-Chun Chen, Chih-Cheng Wu, Yu-Chen Wang, Po-Ching Chou, Hui-Yi Yap, Hao-Min Cheng
To facilitate the applications of home blood pressure (HBP) monitoring in clinical settings, the Taiwan Hypertension Society and the Taiwan Society of Cardiology jointly put forward the Consensus Statement on HBP monitoring according to up-to-date scientific evidence by convening a series of expert meetings and compiling opinions from the members of these two societies. In this Consensus Statement as well as recent international guidelines for management of arterial hypertension, HBP monitoring has been implemented in diagnostic confirmation of hypertension, identification of hypertension phenotypes, guidance of anti-hypertensive treatment, and detection of hypotensive events...
November 2020: Acta Cardiologica Sinica