How home blood pressure testing could reduce strokes

Posted on 10th February 2020 Updated on 10th February 2020

Listen to Professor Jonathan Mant discuss ‘How home blood pressure testing could reduce strokes’ on a Naked Scientists podcast, recorded in 2018

Reference: McManus RJ, Mant J, Franssen M, Nickless A, Schwartz C, Hodgkinson J, Bradburn P, Farmer A, Grant S, Greenfield SM, Heneghan C, Jowett S, Martin U, Milner S, Monahan M, Mort S, Ogburn E, Perera-Salazar R, Shah SA, Yu LM, Tarassenko L, Hobbs FDR; TASMINH4 investigators. Efficacy of self-monitored blood pressure, with or without telemonitoring, for titration of antihypertensive medication (TASMINH4): an unmasked randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2018 Feb 27. pii: S0140-6736(18)30309-X
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