In the past two decades, techniques for the measurement of blood pressure outside the
medical setting have unmasked highly prevalent situations. A significant proportion of …

White-coat and masked hypertension are important hypertension phenotypes. Out-of-office
blood pressure measurement is essential for the accurate diagnosis and monitoring of these …

Abstract 'Masked hypertension'is defined as having non-elevated clinic blood pressure (BP)
with elevated out-of-clinic average BP, typically determined by ambulatory BP monitoring …

The prognostic value of white coat hypertension (WCH) is still debated. In 2051 subjects
representative of the general population of Monza, we measured office, ambulatory, and …

Hypertension remains the largest modifiable cause of mortality worldwide despite the
availability of effective medications and sustained research efforts over the past 100 years …

Stroke is the second most common cause of death worldwide and of adult disability, but in
the near future the global burden of cerebrovascular diseases will rise due to ageing and …

Objective: Although most national guidelines for the diagnosis and management of
hypertension emphasize that the initiation and modification of blood pressure (BP)-lowering …

Obesity is associated with a higher risk of developing diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension
(HT), and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). The present study assessed in the general …

Background As many as one-third of individuals with normal office blood pressure (BP) are
diagnosed with masked hypertension (HTN) based on ambulatory BP measurements …

Objective: The Ambulatory blood pressure Registry TEleMonitoring of hypertension and
cardiovascular rISk project was designed to set up an international registry including clinic …