The urgency to regulate validation of automated blood pressure measuring devices: a policy statement and call to action from the world hypertension league
1 Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia. James.Sharman@utas.edu.au.
2 Lancet Commission on Hypertension Group, London, UK. James.Sharman@utas.edu.au.
3 Department of Non Communicable and Mental Health, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA.
4 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
5 Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, San Luca Hospital, Milan, Italy.
6 Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
7 Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece.
8 Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.
9 Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
10 Lancet Commission on Hypertension Group, London, UK.
11 Department of Internal Medicine, Holbaek Hospital, Holbaek, Denmark.
12 Department for Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
13 Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
14 British and Irish Hypertension Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
15 School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
16 International Society of Hypertension, White Colne, UK.
17 Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Faculty of Medic2ine, Biology and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
18 Manchester Heart Centre and Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.
19 Division of Translational Neurosciences and Population Studies, Department of Neurology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
20 Department of Medicine, Center for Health Evaluation and Outcomes Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
21 Nuffield Department Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
22 Hypertension Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada.
23 World Hypertension League, Hong Kong, China.
24 Beijing Hypertension League Institute, Beijing, China.
25 Stroke Foundation, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
26 Resolve to Save Lives, New York, NY, USA.
27 High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
28 Dobney Hypertension Centre, Royal Perth Hospital Research Foundation, Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.
29 Department of Medicine, Physiology and Pharmacology and Community Health Sciences, O'Brien Institute for Public Health and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.