The Japanese Society of Hypertension Guidelines or Self-monitoring of Blood Pressure at Home Second Edition)

摘要

Since Riva-Rocci invented indirect brachial cuff sphygmomanometry in 18961 and Korotkoff proposed the auscultatory method in 1905,2 the method for blood pressure (BP) measurements has remained essentially unchanged for the past 100 years.In 1969, Posey et al? identified mean BP on the basis of the cuff-oscillometric method. With subsequent theoretical and technical improvements, the method to determine systolic and diastolic BP (S and D, respectively) was introduced to the cuff-oscillometric method. As a result, many of the automatic electronic sphygmoman-ometers available today have adopted this method, and those different from the auscultatory method have begun to be used in general clinical practice.