One of the greatest problems in treating high blood pressure is patient’s self compliance to the prescribed medication and medical advice. The treatment is for long term, mostly for long life, and may be associated with side effects, without having significant symptoms, and therefore does not experience a decisive improvement of symptoms through the treatment.
This requires the patient’s involvement in his/her own treatment in related to the selection of anti-hypertensives drug(s) used, the patient’s commitment to change lifestyle, and the patient’s participation in controlling his or her blood pressure (BP).
Self BP measurement is recommended by the European Society of Hypertension as a very sensitive method of adjusting treatment. Hence, telemetric BP monitoring opens up new possibilities of improving patient compliance in the treatment of hypertension. It improves the relationship of the patients to their own disease – and thus the basis for treatment.
A clinical study reveals that telemetric BP monitoring is a useful way of involving patients communicatively in their treatment through self-measuring BP. It opens up the possibility of interaction between physician and the patients. This produces an unusually high rate of BP normalisation.
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