Two Blood Pressure Readings, One Decision: What to Ask When Home and Clinic Disagree
If my home and clinic blood pressure readings disagree, what should I record and ask my clinician before deciding what to do next?
Learn what to record and which questions to ask before a home–clinic disagreement becomes a treatment decision.
Quick answer
When home and clinic blood pressure disagree, the useful decision is how to confirm the pattern—not which single reading to believe.
This guide answers
- When home and clinic blood pressure disagree, the useful decision is how to confirm the pattern—not which single reading to believe.
References
- NICE — Chapter: Recommendations — nice.org.uk
- US Preventive Services Task Force — Hypertension in adults screening — uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org
- American Heart Association — Monitoring your blood pressure at home — heart.org
- From clinic to home monitoring: Diagnostic strategies and evidence landscape of white-coat uncontrolled hypertension. — Clinical and experimental hypertension (New York, N.Y. : 1993)
- Blood pressure phenotypes and hypertension-associated cardiac damage. — Journal of hypertension
- Cystic burden meets blood pressure: cardiac remodelling in paediatric autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. — Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)
- Ambulatory blood pressure abnormalities, obstructive sleep apnea, and end-organ damage in children with sickle cell disease. — Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)
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