Compare the home cuff’s reading with the office cuff’s reading to verify the accuracy of the home cuff’s.
Compare both upper extremes during the first visit, and if they are unequal, use the higher value.Below is a summary of the most recent national guidelines for evaluating these patients, and the Figure shows the BP classification by The Eighth Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 8) American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (AHA) hypertension guidelines: Health care providers often encounter patients with high blood pressure (BP), especially systolic, who come and go without proper treatment and eventually end up in the hospital with a heart attack, kidney failure, or a stroke.
