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ReviewHypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)2020

Management of Hypertension in the Digital Era: Small Wearable Monitoring Devices for Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring.

Kazuomi Kario

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Review in Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 118 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
118citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
19.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

118 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 220 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Wearable Devices as Tools for Better Hypertension Management in Elderly Patients.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2025
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  8. Arterial blood pressure waveform reconstruction estimation from PPG using TCN-BiLSTM.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2026
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  15. The Japanese Society of Hypertension Guidelines for blood pressure control using digital technologies.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2026
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  16. Investigating feature-engineered predictors for systolic blood pressure changes in an mHealth-based disease management program.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2026
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58 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kazuomi KarioFrom the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan; and the Hypertension Cardiovascular Outcome Prevention and Evidence in Asia (HOPE Asia) Network.
Jichi Medical University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Out-of-office blood pressure measurement is an essential part of diagnosing and managing hypertension. In the era of advanced digital health information technology, the approach to achieving this is shifting from traditional methods (ambulatory and home blood pressure monitoring) to wearable devices and technology. Wearable blood pressure monitors allow frequent blood pressure measurements (ideally continuous beat-by-beat monitoring of blood pressure) with minimal stress on the patient. It is expected that wearable devices will dramatically change the quality of detection and management of hypertension by increasing the number of measurements in different situations, allowing accurate detection of phenotypes that have a negative impact on cardiovascular prognosis, such as masked hypertension and abnormal blood pressure variability. Frequent blood pressure measurements and the addition of new features such as monitoring of environmental conditions allows interpretation of blood pressure data in the context of daily stressors and different situations. This new digital approach to hypertension contributes to anticipation medicine, which refers to strategies designed to identify increasing risk and predict the onset of cardiovascular events based on a series of data collected over time, allowing proactive interventions to reduce risk. To achieve this, further research and validation is required to develop wearable blood pressure monitoring devices that provide the same accuracy as current approaches and can effectively contribute to personalized medicine.

Indexed as

Blood Pressure MonitorsRemote Sensing TechnologyWearable Electronic DevicesBlood Pressure Monitoring, AmbulatoryHumansHypertensionPrognosisblood pressurehypertensionphenotypeprognosiswearable electronic devices

Identifiers

PMID32755418
PMCPMC7418935
OpenAlexW3047559810

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