Effect of Home Blood Pressure Monitoring on Patient’s Awareness and Goal Attainment Under Antihypertensive Therapy: The Factors Influencing Results in Anti-HypertenSive Treatment (FIRST) Study

Effect of Home Blood Pressure Monitoring on Patient’s Awareness and Goal Attainment Under Antihypertensive Therapy: The Factors Influencing Results in Anti-HypertenSive Treatment (FIRST) Study

Background/Aims: Despite availability of a broad spectrum of blood pressure (BP)-lowering drugs many hypertensive patients do not attain BP goals. We aimed to evaluate the influence of home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) on patient’s awareness and attainment of BP goals under antihypertensive trea...

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Main Authors: David Spirk, Sarah Noll, Michel Burnier, Stefano Rimoldi, Georg Noll, Isabella Sudano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2018-06-01
Series:Kidney & Blood Pressure Research
Subjects:
Arterial hypertension
Antihypertensive therapy
Goal attainment
Home blood pressure monitoring
Tolerability
Online Access:https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/490687

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