The 2014 Canadian Hypertension Education Program Recommendations for Blood Pressure Measurement, Diagnosis, Assessment of Risk, Prevention, and Treatment of Hypertension  Kaberi Dasgupta, MD, MSc, Robert R. Quinn, MD, PhD, Kelly B. Zarnke, MD, MSc, Doreen M. Rabi, MD, MSc, Pietro Ravani, MD, PhD, Stella S. Daskalopoulou, MD, PhD, Simon W. Rabkin, MD, Luc Trudeau, MD, Ross D. Feldman, MD, Lyne Cloutier, RN, PhD, Ally Prebtani, MD, Robert J. Herman, MD, Simon L. Bacon, PhD, Richard E. Gilbert, MD, PhD, Marcel Ruzicka, MD, PhD, Donald W. McKay, PhD, Tavis S. Campbell, PhD, Steven Grover, MD, MPA, George Honos, MD, Ernesto L. Schiffrin, MD, PhD, Peter Bolli, MD, Thomas W. Wilson, MD, Patrice Lindsay, RN, PhD, Michael D. Hill, MD, MSc, Shelagh B. Coutts, MD, Gord Gubitz, MD, Mark Gelfer, MD, Michel Vallée, MD, PhD, G.V. Ramesh Prasad, MBBS, MSc, Marcel Lebel, MD, Donna McLean, RN, NP, PhD, J. Malcolm O. Arnold, MD, Gordon W. Moe, MD, MSc, Jonathan G. Howlett, MD, Jean-Martin Boulanger, MD, Pierre Larochelle, MD, Lawrence A. Leiter, MD, Charlotte Jones, MD, PhD, Richard I. Ogilvie, MD, Vincent Woo, MD, Janusz Kaczorowski, PhD, Kevin D. Burns, MD, Robert J. Petrella, MD, PhD, Swapnil Hiremath, MD, MPH, Alain Milot, MD, MSc, James A. Stone, MD, PhD, Denis Drouin, MD, Kim L. Lavoie, PhD, Maxime Lamarre-Cliche, MD, Guy Tremblay, MD, Pavel Hamet, MD, PhD, George Fodor, MD, PhD, S. George Carruthers, MD, George B. Pylypchuk, MD, Ellen Burgess, MD, Richard Lewanczuk, MD, PhD, George K. Dresser, MD, PhD, S. Brian Penner, MD, Robert A. Hegele, MD, Philip A. McFarlane, MD, PhD, Milan Khara, MBChB, Andrew Pipe, CM, MD, Paul Oh, MD, MSc, Peter Selby, MBBS, MHSc, Mukul Sharma, MD, MSc, Debra J. Reid, PhD, RD, Sheldon W. Tobe, MD, MSc(HPTE), Raj S. Padwal, MD, MSc, Luc Poirier, BPharm, MSc  Canadian Journal of Cardiology  Volume 30, Issue 5, Pages 485-501 (May 2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2014.02.002 Copyright © 2014 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 The expedited assessment and diagnosis of patients with hypertension: Focus on validated technologies for BP assessment. ** Thresholds refer to BP values averaged across the corresponding number of visits and not just the most recent office visit. ABPM, ambulatory BP monitoring; BP, blood pressure (mm Hg); DBP, diastolic BP (mm Hg); HBPM, home BP measurement; HTN, hypertension; OBPM, office BP measurement; SBP, systolic BP (mm Hg). Reproduced with permission from the Canadian Hypertension Education Program. Canadian Journal of Cardiology 2014 30, 485-501DOI: (10.1016/j.cjca.2014.02.002) Copyright © 2014 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Terms and Conditions