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Home BP monitoring improves control of hypertension and reduces treatment costs

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Dr KK Aggarwal    10 September 2018

People with high BP are more likely to get it under control if they record their BP readings at home and share them with their healthcare provider. At-home monitoring combined with doctor visits gives providers a better sense of patients’ true blood pressure readings by avoiding white coat HT and masked HT, leading to more individualized treatment and better control of HT. Sixty-seven percent of patients had their BP controlled by their 3rd visit and almost 60% had their BP under control by their sixth visit to the doctor’s office. At the end of the intervention, systolic BP had decreased an average 16.9 mmHg and diastolic BP declined by an average 6.5 mmHg (American Heart Associations Joint Hypertension 2018 Scientific Sessions, Sept 8, 2018 in Chicago).

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