aHypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece
bDepartment of Medicine. University of Padova, Italy
cFoundation, Medical Research Institutes, Paris, France
dDepartments of Medicine, of Health Research and Policy, and of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Department of Statistics, Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, USA
eInstitute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London and the National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre, UK
fGreen Templeton College, and Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
gUniversity of Toronto, Schulich Heart Program. Division of Cardiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
hDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca; Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Cardiology Unit and Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, S.Luca Hospital, Milan, Italy
iDepartment of Women and Children's Health, School of Life Course Sciences, FoLSM, Kings College, London, UK
jShanghai Institute of Hypertension, Department of Hypertension, Centre for Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
kThe Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland
Correspondence to Professor George S. Stergiou, MD, FRCP, 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: [email protected]
Abbreviations: AAMI, US Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation; BP, blood pressure; ESH, European Society of Hypertension; ISO, International Organization for Standardization; SD, standard deviation
Received 13 October, 2018
Revised 9 December, 2018
Accepted 10 December, 2018
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