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Received: 17 April 2018 Accepted: 18 April 2018 DOI: 10.1111/jch.13305
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Home blood pressure telemonitoring in the 21st century Gianfranco Parati MD, PhD1,2
| Eamon Dolan MD, MRCPI, PhD3 |
Richard J. McManus PhD, FRCGP, FRCP4 1 Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy 2
Cardiology Unit and Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, Istituto Auxologco Italiano, S. Luca Hospital, Milano, Italy 3
Stroke and Hypertension Unit, Connolly Hospital, Dublin, Ireland 4
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 5
Clinical Research Unit, Italian Institute of Telemedicine, Solbiate Arno, Italy Correspondence Stefano Omboni, MD. Clinical Research Unit, Italian Institute of Telemedicine, Solbiate Arno, Italy. Email:
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| Stefano Omboni MD5
Blood pressure telemonitoring (BPT) is a telehealth strategy that allows remote data transmission of blood pressure and additional information on patients’ health status from their dwellings or from a community setting to the doctor’s office or the hospital. There is sufficiently strong evidence from several randomized controlled trials that the regular and prolonged use of BPT combined with telecounseling and case management under the supervision of a team of healthcare professionals is associated with a significant blood pressure reduction compared with usual care, particularly in cases of patients at high risk. However, most current evidence is based on studies of relatively short duration (
