aHypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece
bUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA (retired)
cPhysikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany
dFoundation, Medical Research Institutes, Paris France
eMedaval, Dublin, Ireland
fClinic for Cardiology, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
gMicrolife, Switzerland
hGeneral Electric Healthcare Technologies, USA
iDräger, Lübeck, Germany
jOmron Healthcare, Kyoto, Japan
kDepartments of Medicine and of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Department of Statistics, Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, USA
lInstitute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London and the National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre, UK
mGreen Templeton College, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
nNewcastle University, UK
oUniversity of Toronto, Schulich Heart Program. Division of Cardiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
pDepartment of Medicine. University of Padova, Italy
qDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca; Cardiology Unit and Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, S.Luca Hospital, Istituto Auxologco Italiano, Milano, Italy
rWelch Allyn, USA
sPharmaSmart International, USA
tKing's College London, St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK
uNihon Kohden, Tokyo, Japan
vShanghai Institute of Hypertension, Department of Hypertension, Centre for Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
wOffice of Biostatistics Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
xThe Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland
Correspondence to Professor George S. Stergiou, Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, 152 Mesogion Avenue, Athens 11527, Greece. Tel: +30 2107763117; fax: +30 2107719981; e-mail: gstergi@med.uoa.gr
Abbreviations: AAMI, Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation; ANSI, American National Standards Institute; BHS, British Hypertension Society; ESH, European Society of Hypertension; ESH-IP, European Society of Hypertension International Protocol; ISO, International Organization for Standardization
Received 23 August, 2017
Revised 31 October, 2017
Accepted 3 November, 2017
