The Japanese Society of Hypertension (JSH) revised the Guidelines for the Management of
Hypertension 2014 (JSH 2014), and published the JSH 2019. In the development of the JSH …

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a chronic disorder develo** insidiously
throughout life and usually progressing to an advanced stage by the time symptoms occur. It …

Background Ambulatory blood pressure provides a more comprehensive assessment than
clinic blood pressure, and has been reported to better predict health outcomes than clinic or …

Background Evidence for the influence of ambulatory blood pressure on prognosis derives
mainly from population-based studies and a few relatively small clinical investigations. This …

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is being used increasingly in both clinical
practice and hypertension research. Although there are many guidelines that emphasize the …

The present paper provides an update of previous recommendations on Home Blood
Pressure Monitoring from the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) Working Group on …

Background The mechanisms by which hypertension causes vascular events are unclear.
Guidelines for diagnosis and treatment focus only on underlying mean blood pressure. We …

Recommendations about therapy for hypertension are here preceded by some
considerations on the strength of available evidence on the benefits associated with …

We introduce and validate a beat-to-beat optical blood pressure (BP) estimation paradigm
using only photoplethysmogram (PPG) signal from finger tips. The scheme determines …

Accurate measurement of blood pressure is essential to classify individuals, to ascertain
blood pressure–related risk, and to guide management. The auscultatory technique with a …