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Thijs and colleagues¹ recently reported a meta-analysis of self-recorded blood pressure (BP) values. Given the convenience and increasing use of inexpensive automatic BP monitors, the long-term reliability of self-measured BP is of importance. Thus, we examined the 4-year test-retest reliability of home self-measured BP, which is considered less likely to be influenced by differential reactivity ("white-coat effect") to laboratory or clinical settings.²

A total of 28 female and 47 male healthy adult German volunteers (white- and blue-collar workers and students; mean age at enrollment, 31.9 years; SD, 6.4 years) completed the 4-year follow-up (dropouts did not differ significantly from subjects completing the study on the variables of BP, body mass index [BMI or Quetelet index: calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters: weight (kg)/{height (m)}²], alcohol consumption, sex, age, or reactivity to mental arithmetic stress³). The research was approved by the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Corresponding author: Stuart Brody, PhD (e-mail: stuart.brody@uni-tuebingen.de).

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