The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 122, Issue 9 , Pages 803-810 , September 2009

Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Clinical Practice: A Review

  • Salman Mallick, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, St. Vincent's Charity Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
    • ,
  • Radhika Kanthety, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
    • ,
  • Mahboob Rahman, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
    • Renal Section, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
    • Corresponding Author InformationRequests for reprints should be addressed to Mahboob Rahman, MD, MS, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, 11100 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106

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 Funding: None.

 Conflict of Interest: None of the authors has a conflict of interest with this manuscript.

 Authorship: We verify that all authors had access to the data and a role in writing the manuscript.

PII: S0002-9343(09)00410-0

doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2009.02.028

The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 122, Issue 9 , Pages 803-810 , September 2009

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