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It is becoming increasingly apparent among health care professionals and researchers in the field of hypertension, that the traditional practice of relying on arbitrary blood pressure measurements obtained in the clinic or a doctor’s office setting, is not representative of one’s true pressure within the arteries and is not a reliable predictor of the risk of damage to the blood vessels and related organs, known as target organ damage, caused by the elevated pressure. This is partly due to the fact that the traditional approach has been to perform arbitrary reading once per month or even once every 3 months in a doctor’s office or clinic, which is too small a number of readings to be representative of one’s arterial pressure on a whole.

There are also many factors that can affect one’s arterial pressure reading in a doctor’s office that are not operative outside of the doctor’s office. One illustration of this is the white-coat hypertension, a phenomenon in which a patient’s pressure is high in the doctor’s office but not elevated when measured outside of the doctor’s office, particularly at home. Conversely, there is another group of patients, usually younger patients, who tend have normal readings in the doctor’s office but elevated readings outside of the doctor’s office.