Patient assessment of self-measurement of blood pressure: results of a telephone survey in Germany

Home blood pressure measurement and its relationship with blood pressure control in a large selected hypertensive population

“…26 Krecke et al 21 reviewed the prevalence of home BPM reported in eight German investigations over a 10-year period (1984)(1985)(1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994), including a total of 4427 hypertensive patients and found that the average rate of patients practising home BPM was 27.6%. 21 The lowest rate (19.7%) was observed in 851 patients surveyed in the Monica study across 1984-1985 (increased to 27.1% in the second survey performed 5 years later) and the highest (70%) in 880 callers to the Cardiovascular Hotline Heidelberg, while intermediate rates were found in smaller studies 22 performed in different outpatient hospital centres. These findings suggest that home BPM was marginally practised by the general hypertensive population surveyed in the earlier German studies and rose substantially in more recent surveys including particularly motivated patients such as the callers seeking information from a hotline.…”

“…Despite the fact that the diffusion of home BP devices has shown a constant increase in the last decade, as testified by their current high rate of sale in industrialized countries, 20 only a few large observational surveys have recently analysed the diffusion of this method and its impact on BP control in treated hypertensives. 21,22 The aim of the present study was, consequently, to evaluate the prevalence of home BPM practice and its relationship with BP control in a large group of treated hypertensive patients followed up in an outpatient hospital hypertension centre.…”

Use of home sphygmomanometers in Turkey: a nation-wide survey

“…Even in the 1990's, a telephone survey showed about 70% prevalence of self-measurement of BP among hypertensive callers in Germany. 14 Cuspidi et al 15 conducted a multicenter survey in Italy and found that 640 (75%) of 855 hypertensive patients had been regularly performing home BP measurements. Almost all hypertensive patients in the United States and Japan have a home sphygmomanometer 4,16,17 and 90-95% of the physicians recommend HBPM in Japan.…”

Blood pressure telemonitoring is useful to achieve blood pressure control in inadequately treated patients with arterial hypertension

“…14 Therefore, it is no surprise that only approximately half of the physicians have confidence in the data of HBPM and take them into account in there decision making process. 15 Telemetric BP monitoring (TBPM) should be regarded as a further development in self-measuring HBPM. The literature considers TBPM as a promising method.…”