Blood Pressure Measurement and Hypertension Diagnosis in the 2017 US Guidelines: First Things First

Affiliations

• ¹ From the Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Greece (G.S.) gstergi@med.uoa.gr.
• ² Department of Medicine, University of Padova, Italy (P.P.).
• ³ Foundation, Medical Research Institutes, Paris, France (R.A.).
• ⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Spain (A.d.l.S.).
• ⁵ Hypertension Unit, Hospital Mutua Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain (A.d.l.S.).
• ⁶ University of Toronto, Schulich Heart Program, Division of Cardiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Canada (M.M.).
• ⁷ King's College London, St. Thomas' Hospital, United Kingdom (A.S.).
• ⁸ Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Department of Hypertension, Centre for Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, China (J.W.).
• ⁹ The Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland (E.O.).
• ¹⁰ Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy (G.P.).
• ¹¹ and Cardiology Unit and Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, S.Luca Hospital, Istituto Auxologco Italiano, Milano, Italy (G.P.).