Bernard Waeber

TL;DR: The Committee has tried to avoid giving rigid rules that would constrain judgement on the management of individual patients differing in their personal, medical and cultural characteristics.

TL;DR: The historical background, the advantages and limitations of ABPM, the threshold levels for practice, and the cost-effectiveness of the technique are considered, while the role ofABPM in research circumstances, such as pharmacological trials and in the prediction of outcome in epidemiological studies is examined.

TL;DR: The 2013 European Society of Hypertension/European Society of Cardiology (ESH/ESC) guidelines continue to adhere to some fundamental principles that inspired the 2003 and 2007 guidelines, namely to base recommendations on properly conducted studies identified from an ext

TL;DR: A survey of blood pressure measuring devices for which there is published evidence of independent validation using the BHS and AAMI protocols found that only a fraction of the many devices available have been surveyed.

TL;DR: The requirements and the methodological issues to be addressed for using ABPM in clinical practice are addressed, the clinical indications for ABPM suggested by the available studies are outlined in detail, and the place of home measurement of blood pressure in relation to ABPM is discussed.