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To the Editor: Home blood-pressure measurement with the use of an automatic, portable, battery-operated device is easily learned by patients and is an inexpensive way to confirm (or cast doubt on) hypertension detected in the office setting. The elderly man described by Chobanian (Aug. 23 issue)¹ in his Clinical Practice article might prove to be normotensive with home blood-pressure measurement, in which case he would not need medication. If hypertension were confirmed by home blood-pressure measurment, lower measurements recorded in his blood-pressure diary after institution of therapy would provide excellent confirmation of a favorable drug effect. Both American and European . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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