If only cardiologists did properly measure blood pressure
Blood pressure recordings in daily practice and clinical trials
Franz H. Messerli, MD, FACC*,*,
William B. White, MD and
Jan A. Staessen, MD
* Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA
Campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium

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Figure 1 Comparison of cuff blood pressure (BP), 24-h ambulatory BP (ABPM) and nighttime ambulatory BP in the Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation (HOPE) study and in a HOPE substudy.
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