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Abstract
Purpose: Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) plays a crucial role in its management. This review summarizes the current evidence on HBPM, focusing on its clinical utility, technological advancements, and future directions.
Methods: We conducted a narrative synthesis of recent literature on HBPM, including its background, technological developments, and clinical applications. Key studies and guidelines were analyzed to assess the benefits, challenges, and emerging trends in HBPM adoption.
Results: HBPM offers significant advantages, such as improved patient adherence, more accurate blood pressure data, and better long-term hypertension control. However, challenges remain, including standardization issues, variability in device accuracy, and integration with digital health systems. Emerging technologies, such as AI-driven analytics and smartphone-connected devices, are expected to enhance HBPM in the near future.
Conclusions: HBPM represents a transformative approach to hypertension management, with emerging wearable and AI-enhanced technologies poised to revolutionize blood pressure monitoring, though wider clinical adoption requires improved standardization and validation protocols.
期刊介绍:
Published quarterly in print and continuously online, BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care aims to connect many disciplines and specialties throughout the world by providing high quality, clinically relevant research, reviews, comment, information and news of international importance.
We hold an inclusive view of supportive and palliative care research and we are able to call on expertise to critique the whole range of methodologies within the subject, including those working in transitional research, clinical trials, epidemiology, behavioural sciences, ethics and health service research. Articles with relevance to clinical practice and clinical service development will be considered for publication.
In an international context, many different categories of clinician and healthcare workers do clinical work associated with palliative medicine, specialist or generalist palliative care, supportive care, psychosocial-oncology and end of life care. We wish to engage many specialties, not only those traditionally associated with supportive and palliative care. We hope to extend the readership to doctors, nurses, other healthcare workers and researchers in medical and surgical specialties, including but not limited to cardiology, gastroenterology, geriatrics, neurology, oncology, paediatrics, primary care, psychiatry, psychology, renal medicine, respiratory medicine.