Blood pressure control by home monitoring: meta-analysis of randomised trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the effect of home blood pressure monitoring on blood pressure levels and proportion of people with essential hypertension achieving targets.

Design

Meta-analysis of 18 randomised controlled trials.

Participants

1359 people with essential hypertension allocated to home blood pressure monitoring and 1355 allocated to the "control" group seen in the healthcare system for 2-36 months.

Main outcome measures

Differences in systolic (13 studies), diastolic (16 studies), or mean (3 studies) blood pressures, and proportion of patients achieving targets (6 studies), between intervention and control groups.

Results

Systolic blood pressure was lower in people with hypertension who had home blood pressure monitoring than in those who had stand

SUBMITTER: Cappuccio FP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC478224 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature