Cost-effectiveness of the introduction of home blood pressure measurement : estimation based on a Markov model

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Using a Markov model we examined cost-effectiveness of the introduction of home blood pressure measurement for the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension. The introduction of home blood pressure measurement for newly detected hypertensive patients in Japan was found to be very useful to reduce medical costs. Introduction of HBP measurement was also found to be cost-effective for newly confirmed masked uncontrolled hypertensive patients. The introduction of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring was also found to be cost-effective.