Defining Ambulatory Blood Pressure Thresholds for Decision Making in Hypertension: The Effect of Race and Methodology

Affiliations

¹ From Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Greece. gstergi@med.uoa.gr.
² From Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Greece.

Editorial

George S Stergiou et al. Circulation. 2017.

. 2017 Jun 20;135(25):2481-2484.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.028777.

¹ From Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Greece. gstergi@med.uoa.gr.
² From Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Greece.

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Keywords: Editorials; blood pressure monitoring, ambulatory; diagnosis; ethnic groups; hypertension; methods.

Comment on

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