Hypertension guidelines.

摘要

We were interested to read Parker and Glasziou's assessment of previous hypertension guidelines and their advice on the measurement of both arms, to identify an inter-arm difference. We have also researched this subject, and found that the advice to measure both arms can be traced back, almost verbatim, over 70 years. The ESH 2007 guidelines, however, took a significant step in attributing an inter-arm difference to peripheral vascular disease for the first time.