The 2012 Canadian Hypertension Education Program Recommendations for the Management of Hypertension: Blood Pressure Measurement, Diagnosis, Assessment of Risk, and Therapy  Stella S. Daskalopoulou, MD, PhD, Nadia A. Khan, MD, MSc, Robert R. Quinn, MD, PhD, Marcel Ruzicka, MD, PhD, Donald W. McKay, PhD, Daniel G. Hackam, MD, PhD, Simon W. Rabkin, MD, Doreen M. Rabi, MD, MSc, Richard E. Gilbert, MD, PhD, Raj S. Padwal, MD, MSc, Martin Dawes, MBBS, MD(Lond), Rhian M. Touyz, MD, PhD, Tavis S. Campbell, PhD, Lyne Cloutier, RN, PhD, Steven Grover, MD, MPA, George Honos, MD, Robert J. Herman, MD, Ernesto L. Schiffrin, MD, PhD, Peter Bolli, MD, Thomas Wilson, MD, Ross D. Feldman, MD, M. Patrice Lindsay, BScN, PhD, Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, MD, PhD, Michael D. Hill, MD, MSc, Mark Gelfer, MD, Kevin D. Burns, MD, Michel Vallée, MD, PhD, G.V. Ramesh Prasad, MBBS, MSc, Marcel Lebel, MD, Donna McLean, RN, MN, NP, PhD(c), 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, Luc Trudeau, MD, Simon L. Bacon, PhD, Robert J. Petrella, MD, PhD, Alain Milot, MD, MSc, James A. Stone, MD, PhD, Denis Drouin, MD, Maxime Lamarre-Cliché, MD, Marshall Godwin, MD, MSc, Guy Tremblay, MD, Pavel Hamet, MD, PhD, George Fodor, MD, PhD, S. George Carruthers, MD, George Pylypchuk, MD, Ellen Burgess, MD, Richard Lewanczuk, MD, George K. Dresser, MD, PhD, Brian Penner, MD, Robert A. Hegele, MD, Philip A. McFarlane, MD, PhD, Mukul Sharma, MD, MSc, Norman R.C. Campbell, MD, Debra Reid, PhD, RD, Luc Poirier, BPharm, MSc, Sheldon W. Tobe, MD  Canadian Journal of Cardiology  Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 270-287 (May 2012) DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2012.02.018 Copyright © 2012 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 measurement; 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). Reprinted with permission from the Canadian Hypertension Education Program. Canadian Journal of Cardiology 2012 28, 270-287DOI: (10.1016/j.cjca.2012.02.018) Copyright © 2012 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Terms and Conditions