[Home blood pressure measurement in the diagnosis and follow-up of patientswith hypertension]

Clinical measures of blood pressure can lead to errors in the process of diagnosis and monitoring of hypertensive patients, therefore, the scientific societies recommend the use of other measurement methods such as home or ambulatory monitoring measures. With household measures, most of the doubts in the process of diagnosis and monitoring of hypertensive patients are resolved. The home measures should be used in the diagnostic process of hypertension, such as screening test white coat hypertension and masked hypertension and monitoring of hypertensive patients as a screening test for treatment-resistant hypertension. In addition, monitoring of hypertensive patients domiciliary measures have been shown to improve patient compliance, reduce clinical inertia and it is possible teletransmission data, aspects that have been shown to help improve the control. © 2017 SEHLELHA. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.