The 2011 Canadian Hypertension Education Program Recommendations for the Management of Hypertension: Blood Pressure Measurement, Diagnosis, Assessment of Risk, and Therapy  Doreen M. Rabi, MD, MSc, Stella S. Daskalopoulou, MD, PhD, Raj S. Padwal, MD, MSc, Nadia A. Khan, MD, MSc, Steven A. Grover, MD, MPA, Daniel G. Hackam, MD, PhD, Martin G. Myers, MD, Donald W. McKay, PhD, Robert R. Quinn, MD, PhD, Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, MD, PhD, Lyne Cloutier, RN, PhD, Peter Bolli, MD, Michael D. Hill, MD, MSc, Thomas Wilson, MD, Brian Penner, MD, Ellen Burgess, MD, Maxime Lamarre-Cliché, MD, Donna McLean, RN, MN, NP, PhD(c), Ernesto L. Schiffrin, MD, PhD, George Honos, MD, Karen Mann, MSc, PhD, Guy Tremblay, MD, Alain Milot, MD, MSc, Arun Chockalingam, MS, PhD, Simon W. Rabkin, MD, Martin Dawes, MBBS, MD(Lond), Rhian M. Touyz, MD, PhD, Kevin D. Burns, MD, Marcel Ruzicka, MD, PhD, Norman R.C. Campbell, MD, Michel Vallée, MD, PhD, G.V. Ramesh Prasad, MBBS, MSc, Marcel Lebel, MD, Tavis S. Campbell, PhD, M. Patrice Lindsay, BScN, PhD, Robert J. Herman, MD, Pierre Larochelle, MD, Ross D. Feldman, MD, J. Malcolm O. Arnold, MD, Gordon W. Moe, MD, MSc, Jonathan G. Howlett, MD, Luc Trudeau, MD, Simon L. Bacon, PhD, Robert J. Petrella, MD, PhD, Richard Lewanczuk, MD, James A. Stone, MD, PhD, Denis Drouin, MD, Jean-Martin Boulanger, MD, Mukul Sharma, MD, MSc, Pavel Hamet, MD, PhD, George Fodor, MD, PhD, George K. Dresser, MD, PhD, S. George Carruthers, MD, George Pylypchuk, MD, Richard E. Gilbert, MD, PhD, Lawrence A. Leiter, MD, Charlotte Jones, MD, PhD, Richard I. Ogilvie, MD, Vincent Woo, MD, Philip A. McFarlane, MD, PhD, Robert A. Hegele, MD, Luc Poirier, BPharm, MSc, Sheldon W. Tobe, MD  Canadian Journal of Cardiology  Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages 415-433.e2 (July 2011) DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2011.03.015 Copyright © 2011 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 The expedited assessment and diagnosis of patients with hypertension (HTN): Focus on validated technologies for blood pressure (BP) assessment. ABPM, ambulatory BP monitoring; BPM, BP monitoring; DBP, diastolic BP; SBP, systolic BP. *Thresholds refer to BP values averaged across the corresponding number of visits and not just the most recent office visit. Reprinted with permission from the Canadian Hypertension Education Program. Canadian Journal of Cardiology 2011 27, 415-433.e2DOI: (10.1016/j.cjca.2011.03.015) Copyright © 2011 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Terms and Conditions