Recommendations for Blood Pressure Measurement in Humans and Experimental Animals

The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure<SUBTITLE>The JNC 7 Report</SUBTITLE>

2003 • 25,662 citations

Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure

2003 • 12,553 citations

Age-specific relevance of usual blood pressure to vascular mortality: a meta-analysis of individual data for one million adults in 61 prospective studies

2002 • 9,810 citations

Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Among US Adults, 1999-2000

2002 • 6,312 citations

Is Pulse Pressure Useful in Predicting Risk for Coronary Heart Disease?

1999 • 1,734 citations

Ambulatory blood pressure. An independent predictor of prognosis in essential hypertension.

1994 • 1,687 citations

European Society of Hypertension recommendations for conventional, ambulatory and home blood pressure measurement

2003 • 1,648 citations

Human blood pressure determination by sphygmomanometry.

1993 • 1,593 citations

Predicting Cardiovascular Risk Using Conventional vs Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Older Patients With Systolic Hypertension

1999 • 1,566 citations

Does the Relation of Blood Pressure to Coronary Heart Disease Risk Change With Aging?

2001 • 1,353 citations

Prognostic Value of Ambulatory Blood-Pressure Recordings in Patients with Treated Hypertension

2003 • 1,047 citations

Update on the 1987 Task Force Report on High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents: A Working Group Report from the National High Blood Pressure Education Program

1996 • 920 citations

Comparison of finger and intra-arterial blood pressure monitoring at rest and during laboratory testing.

1989 • 908 citations

Blood pressure measuring devices: recommendations of the European Society of Hypertension

2001 • 902 citations

Update on the 1987 Task Force Report on High Blood Pressure in Children and Adlescents : A Work Group Report from the National High Blood Pressure Education Program

1996 • 867 citations

Cardiovascular Prognosis of "Masked Hypertension" Detected by Blood Pressure Self-measurement in Elderly Treated Hypertensive Patients

2004 • 845 citations

Spectral Analysis of Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Variability in Evaluating Cardiovascular Regulation

1995 • 842 citations

Serum Cholesterol, Blood Pressure, Cigarette Smoking, and Death From Coronary Heart Disease Overall Findings and Differences by Age for 316099 White Men

1992 • 778 citations

Distribution of 24-h ambulatory blood pressure in children: normalized reference values and role of body dimensions

2002 • 767 citations

Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring of the European Society of Hypertension International Protocol for validation of blood pressure measuring devices in adults

2002 • 733 citations

Serum cholesterol, blood pressure, cigarette smoking, and death from coronary heart disease. Overall findings and differences by age for 316,099 white men. Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial Research Group

1992 • 704 citations

Epidemiologic Assessment of the Role of Blood Pressure in Stroke

1970 • 671 citations

A Longitudinal Study of Coronary Heart Disease

1963 • 620 citations

A Noninvasive Computerized Tail-Cuff System for Measuring Blood Pressure in Mice

1995 • 585 citations

Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure, Pulse Pressure, and Mean Arterial Pressure as Predictors of Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Men

2000 • 566 citations

Recommendations for the use of home (self) and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring

1996 • 489 citations

Relation Between Nocturnal Decline in Blood Pressure and Mortality The Ohasama Study

1997 • 484 citations

Abnormal Vascular Function and Hypertension in Mice Deficient in Estrogen Receptor β

2002 • 483 citations

Prognostic Value of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Refractory Hypertension

1998 • 427 citations

24-h ambulatory blood pressure in 352 normal Danish subjects, related to age and gender*

1995 • 405 citations

Recommendations on blood pressure measurement.

1986 • 403 citations

Obesity-induced hypertension. Renal function and systemic hemodynamics.

1993 • 324 citations

Noninvasive estimation of central aortic pressure using the oscillometric method for analyzing systemic artery pulsatile blood flow: Comparative study of indirect systolic, diastolic, and mean brachial artery pressure with simultaneous direct ascending aortic pressure measurements

1982 • 314 citations

Relationship of Blood Pressure to 25-Year Mortality Due to Coronary Heart Disease, Cardiovascular Diseases, and All Causes in Young Adult Men

2001 • 310 citations

Practice guidelines for primary care physicians: 2003 ESH/ESC hypertension guidelines.

2003 • 304 citations

ERROR IN BLOOD-PRESSURE MEASUREMENT DUE TO INCORRECT CUFF SIZE IN OBESE PATIENTS

1982 • 303 citations

Cardiovascular Outcome in White-Coat Versus Sustained Mild Hypertension

1998 • 303 citations

What is the value of home blood pressure measurement in patients with mild hypertension?

1984 • 298 citations

Mouse Strain Differences in Susceptibility to Cerebral Ischemia are Related to Cerebral Vascular Anatomy

1993 • 290 citations

Response to Antihypertensive Therapy in Older Patients With Sustained and Nonsustained Systolic Hypertension

2000 • 282 citations

Reliability of reporting self-measured blood pressure values by hypertensive patients

1998 • 270 citations

Surgery's Relevance to an Understanding of Basic Biology

1967 • 258 citations

Feasibility of ambulatory, continuous 24-hour finger arterial pressure recording.

1993 • 254 citations

Strain-Related Differences in Susceptibility to Transient Forebrain Ischemia in SV-129 and C57Black/6 Mice

1997 • 249 citations

Home Monitoring Service Improves Mean Arterial Pressure in Patients with Essential Hypertension

2001 • 246 citations

Arterial tonometry: Review and analysis

1983 • 233 citations

Tail-cuff blood pressure measurement without external preheating in awake rats.

1982 • 229 citations

Silent and clinically overt stroke in older Japanese subjects with white-coat and sustained hypertension

2001 • 220 citations

The Meaning of the Point of Maximum Oscillations in Cuff Pressure in the Indirect Measurement of Blood Pressure—Part II

1980 • 217 citations

Practice Guidelines For Primary Care Physicians

2003 • 209 citations

Reference Values for 24-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Based on a Prognostic Criterion

1998 • 207 citations

Acute hypertension activates mitogen-activated protein kinases in arterial wall.

1996 • 200 citations

Proposal of Reference Values for Home Blood Pressure Measurement Prognostic Criteria Based on a Prospective Observation of the General Population in Ohasama, Japan

1997 • 195 citations

Circadian blood pressure variation in transgenic hypertensive rats.

1993 • 192 citations

Task Force II: Blood pressure measurement and cardiovacular outcome

2001 • 191 citations

Clinical autonomic disorders : evaluation and management

1997 • 190 citations

Continuous monitoring of arterial pressure indicates sinoaortic denervated rats are not hypertensive.

1981 • 189 citations

Discovery of a Spontaneous Genetic Mouse Model of Preeclampsia

2002 • 188 citations

Clinical Utility of Aortic Pulses and Pressures Calculated From Applanated Radial-Artery Pulses

2003 • 184 citations

Deleterious effects of calcium channel blockade on pressure transmission and glomerular injury in rat remnant kidneys.

1995 • 180 citations

STANDARDISATION OF OBSERVERS IN BLOOD-PRESSURE MEASUREMENT

1965 • 178 citations

Evidence for endothelin involvement in the response to high salt

2001 • 177 citations

Inter-arm differences in blood pressure: when are they clinically significant?

2002 • 176 citations

Prospective Evaluation of Clinical Characteristics of Orthostatic Hypotension

1995 • 171 citations

Oscillometric blood pressure measurement: progress and problems

2001 • 168 citations

Arterial Stiffness as Underlying Mechanism of Disagreement Between an Oscillometric Blood Pressure Monitor and a Sphygmomanometer

2000 • 166 citations

Autonomic cardiovascular control in conscious mice

2000 • 150 citations

The influence of restraint on blood pressure in the rat

1997 • 149 citations

The reliability of vital sign measurements

2002 • 148 citations

Are Aneroid Sphygmomanometers Accurate in Hospital and Clinic Settings?

2001 • 148 citations

Indirect Measurement of Mean Blood Pressure in the Anesthetized Patient

1979 • 145 citations

Renal physiology of the mouse

2000 • 139 citations

Measurement of Blood-pressure: Comparison of Intra-arterial and Cuff Values

1964 • 138 citations

Cardiovascular responses to caloric restriction and thermoneutrality in C57BL/6J mice

2002 • 130 citations

INVASIVE V. NON-INVASIVE MEASUREMENT OF ARTERIAL PRESSURE

1985 • 130 citations

Enhanced Blood Pressure Variability in eNOS Knockout Mice

1999 • 128 citations

Direct and indirect methods used to study arterial blood pressure

2000 • 124 citations

Effect of Vertical Displacement of the Arm on Indirect Blood-Pressure Measurement

1964 • 124 citations

Long-Term Telemetric Recording of Arterial Pressure and Heart Rate in Mice Fed Basal and High NaCl Diets

2000 • 120 citations

Cardiovascular Influences of α _1b -Adrenergic Receptor Defect in Mice

2002 • 120 citations

A Comparison of Direct and Indirect Blood-Pressure Determinations

1953 • 118 citations

Comparison of performance of various sphygmomanometers with intra-arterial blood-pressure readings.

1978 • 118 citations

Errors in clinical measurement of blood pressure in obesity.

1967 • 118 citations

Continuous telemetric blood pressure monitoring and glomerular injury in the rat remnant kidney model

1993 • 116 citations

Comparing compliance patterns between randomized treatments

1997 • 115 citations

How accurate are sphygmomanometers?

1998 • 114 citations

Inhibition of NO Synthesis Enhances Chronic Cardiovascular and Renal Actions of Leptin

2001 • 113 citations

Terminal digit preference, random error, and bias in routine clinical measurement of blood pressure

1993 • 112 citations

Miscuffing: inappropriate blood pressure cuff application.

1983 • 112 citations

Effects of anesthesia on cardiovascular control mechanisms.

1978 • 112 citations

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in normotensive children

1994 • 110 citations

Does self-measurement of blood pressure improve patient compliance in hypertension?

1985 • 108 citations

Assessment of techniques for measurement of blood pressure in infants and children.

1973 • 101 citations

White coat hypertension

1996 • 100 citations

Long-term measurement of arterial blood pressure in conscious mice

1998 • 100 citations

An assessment of the Dinamap 845

1984 • 100 citations

Ueber Blutdruckmessung beim Menschen

1901 • 98 citations

Electrocardiogram in Evaluation of Resistance to Antihypertensive Therapy

1977 • 98 citations

The mercury sphygmomanometer should be abandoned before it is proscribed

2000 • 98 citations

Diurnal blood pressure variation and dietary salt in spontaneously hypertensive rats.

1994 • 94 citations

Genetic susceptibility to hypertension-induced renal damage in the rat. Evidence based on kidney-specific genome transfer.

1997 • 94 citations

Autonomic Neuropathy Predicts the Development of Stroke in Patients With Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

1996 • 91 citations

Office Blood Pressure Variability as a Predictor of Brain Infarction in Elderly Hypertensive Patients.

2000 • 89 citations

Correspondence

1996 • 88 citations

From theory into practice: arterial haemodynamics in clinical hypertension

2002 • 86 citations

Reproducibility of increased blood pressure during an emergency department or urgent care visit

2003 • 86 citations

Comparison of nurse- and physician-determined clinic blood pressure levels in patients referred to a hypertension clinic

2000 • 86 citations

Long-term blood pressure telemetry in AT2 receptor-disrupted mice

2000 • 85 citations

Optimizing cuff width for noninvasive measurement of blood pressure

2000 • 84 citations

Office blood pressure variability as a predictor of acute myocardial infarction in elderly patients receiving antihypertensive therapy

2002 • 81 citations

Limitations of current validation protocols for home blood pressure monitors for individual patients

2002 • 79 citations

Association of the Auscultatory Gap with Vascular Disease in Hypertensive Patients

1996 • 78 citations

Cardiovascular and metabolic responses to fasting and thermoneutrality are conserved in obese Zucker rats

2001 • 76 citations

New Methodology for Measuring Blood Pressure in Awake Baboons With Use of Behavioral Training Techniques

1990 • 76 citations

Effect of Back Support and Stethoscope Head on Seated Blood Pressure Determinations

1990 • 76 citations

Influence of body and arm position on blood pressure readings

2003 • 75 citations

“Step” vs. “dynamic” autoregulation: implications for susceptibility to hypertensive injury

2003 • 74 citations

Diagnosis and Treatment of Supine Hypertension in Autonomic Failure Patients With Orthostatic Hypotension

2002 • 71 citations

Accuracy of aneroid sphygmomanometers in clinical usage: University of Michigan experience

2001 • 69 citations

Comparison of Direct and Indirect Arterial Pressure Measurements in Hospitalised Patients**

1974 • 69 citations

Optimal size of cuff bladder for indirect measurement of arterial pressure in adults

1989 • 69 citations

The prevalence and clinical significance of nocturnal hypertension in pregnancy

2001 • 68 citations

Epidemiological Perspective of Body Position and Arm Level in Blood Pressure Measurement

1994 • 66 citations

The accuracy of automated blood pressure measuring devices in patients with controlled atrial fibrillation

1995 • 65 citations

Spurious Hypertension in the Obese Patient

1984 • 64 citations

Exercising Restraint in Measuring Blood Pressure in Conscious Mice

2003 • 63 citations

Patterns of blood pressure variability in normotensive and hypertensive rats

1995 • 63 citations

Genetic Isolation of a Chromosome 1 Region Affecting Blood Pressure in the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat

1997 • 63 citations

Evaluation of an electronic blood pressure device for epidemiological studies.

1997 • 60 citations

Effects of home blood pressure measurement on long-term BP control.

1984 • 58 citations

Measuring blood pressure in the elderly: does atrial fibrillation increase observer variability?

1990 • 58 citations

Family History of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Reactivity to Mental Stress - Effects of Stimulus Intensity and Environment

1985 • 58 citations

Hemodynamic monitoring for 24 h in unanesthetized rats

1987 • 57 citations

White Coat Hypertension

1996 • 56 citations

Epidemiologic Assessment of the Role of Blood Pressure in Stroke

1996 • 55 citations

The Accoson Greenlight 300???, the first non-automated mercury-free blood pressure measurement device to pass the International Protocol for blood pressure measuring devices in adults

2004 • 55 citations

Terminal digit preference and single-number preference in the Syst-Eur trial: influence of quality control

2002 • 55 citations

Isolated Diastolic Hypertension

2003 • 54 citations

Determinants of the limits of agreement between the sphygmomanometer and the SpaceLabs 90207 device for blood pressure measurement in healthy volunteers and insulin-dependent diabetic patients

1998 • 54 citations

Measurement of blood pressure—a routine test in need of standardization

1975 • 52 citations

The effect of crossing legs on blood pressure

1999 • 52 citations

Accuracy of auscultatory blood pressure measurements in hypertensive and obese subjects.

1983 • 51 citations

Arm position is important for blood pressure measurement

1999 • 51 citations

The prognostic value of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in treated hypertensive patients.

1991 • 50 citations

Selective recording in blood pressure readings may increase subsequent mortality

2002 • 49 citations

Prehospital blood pressures: Inaccuracies caused by ambulance noise?

1994 • 49 citations

Genetically determined chloride-sensitive hypertension and stroke

1997 • 47 citations

Evaluation of a community-based automated blood pressure measuring device.

2002 • 45 citations

Osler's maneuver: Absence of usefulness for the detection of pseudohypertension in an elderly population

1995 • 44 citations

Cardiovascular and metabolic responses of hypertensive and normotensive rats to one week of cold exposure

2000 • 44 citations

Comparison of forearm and upper arm blood pressures

1999 • 43 citations

DIASTOLIC FOURTH AND FIFTH PHASE BLOOD PRESSURE IN 10–15-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN: THE CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENT BLOOD PRESSURE PROGRAM

1990 • 43 citations

Accuracy of telemedical home blood pressure measurement in the diagnosis of hypertension

2003 • 43 citations

Prevalence of blood pressure cuff sizes in a referral practice of 430 consecutive adult hypertensives

2001 • 40 citations

The changing distribution of arm circumferences in NHANES III and NHANES 2000 and its impact on the utility of the ???standard adult??? blood pressure cuff

2003 • 40 citations

Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Atrial Fibrillation

1996 • 38 citations

Renal Blood Flow Dynamics and Arterial Pressure Lability in the Conscious Rat

2001 • 38 citations

Prevalence of positive Osler’s manoeuver in 3387 persons screened for the Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly Program (SHEP)

1997 • 37 citations

Prognostic value of ambulatory and home blood pressure measurements in comparison to screening blood pressure measurements: A pilot study in Ohasama

1996 • 36 citations

Systematic difference between blood pressure readings caused by cuff type.

1994 • 35 citations

State of the market for devices for blood pressure measurement

2001 • 35 citations

Low-Dose Angiotensin II Enhances Pressor Responses Without Causing Sustained Hypertension

2003 • 34 citations

Blood pressure monitoring during pregnancy

2001 • 34 citations

Measurement of systolic blood pressure using pulse oximetry during helicopter flight

1991 • 32 citations

Influence of rate of cuff inflation and deflation on observed blood pressure by sphygmomanometry

1963 • 31 citations

Advantages of continuous measurement of cardiac output 24 h a day

1995 • 31 citations

Can simulators evaluate systematic differences between oscillometric non-invasive blood-pressure monitors?

2000 • 30 citations

Analysis of circadian blood pressure rhythm and target-organ damage in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats

1999 • 30 citations

Skip Patterns in DINAMAP-Measured Blood Pressure in 3 Epidemiological Studies

2000 • 28 citations

Accuracy of prehospital sphygmomanometers

1987 • 28 citations

Twenty-four-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in atrial fibrillation

2002 • 28 citations

Identification and evaluation of noninvasive blood pressure measuring techniques

1979 • 28 citations

Wrist blood pressure-measuring devices: a comparative study of accuracy with a standard auscultatory method using a mercury manometer

2002 • 27 citations

Ambulatory monitoring and self-monitoring of blood pressure during pregnancy

2000 • 27 citations

Hypertensive complications and home blood pressure: comparison with blood pressure measured in the doctor's office.

1987 • 24 citations

Failure of the community-based Vita-Stat automated blood pressure device to accurately measure blood pressure

1995 • 24 citations

Clinical test of a blood pressure measurement device with a wrist cuff.

1996 • 23 citations

An evaluation of the Vita-Stat automatic blood pressure measuring device.

1980 • 22 citations

Auscultatory Measurement of Blood Pressure Performed by the Doctor on Duty

1975 • 21 citations

Clinical Evaluation of a Finger Oscillometric Blood Pressure Device

1991 • 21 citations

The influence of a heart level pillow on the result of blood pressure measurement.

1989 • 21 citations

A Community-based Evaluation of the Vita-Stat Automatic Blood Pressure Recorder

1990 • 21 citations

Tracking of 24-hour and casual blood pressure

2000 • 20 citations

Accuracy of blood pressure measurement and anthropometry among volunteer observers in a large community survey

2002 • 20 citations

Assessment of a blood pressure measurement training programme for lay observers

2002 • 20 citations

Is early diagnosis of hypertension a function of cuff width?

1989 • 18 citations

EVALUATION OF THE VITA-STAT AUTOMATIC BLOOD PRESSURE RECORDER: A COMPARIS ON WITH THE RANDOM-ZERO SPHYGMOMANOMETER

1983 • 17 citations

Adverse Effect of Helicopter Flight on the Ability to Palpate Carotid Pulses

1994 • 17 citations

Clinical evaluation of the efficacy of the Braun PrecisionSensor oscillometric wrist blood pressure monitor for use on adults versus auscultation as defined by ANSI/AAMI SP10-1992

2000 • 14 citations

Entering medical students, who say they have been trained to take blood pressure, do not follow the American heart association guidelines.

1999 • 11 citations

[Reliability of the measurement of arterial pressure in the forearm in the obese subject].

1987 • 8 citations

Adaptation to restraint in the rat.

1988 • 8 citations

Long-Term Blood-Pressure Monitoring in Unrestrained Animals

2003 • 7 citations

HALOTHANE IMMUNOSUPPRESSION IN TUMOR-BEARING MICE

1979 • 6 citations

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1955 • 0 citations