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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Arq Bras Cardiol</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">abc</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Arq. Bras. Cardiol.</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0066-782X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1678-4170</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - SBC</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.36660/abc.20190701</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Short Editorial</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Self-Monitoring with or Without Telemonitoring: Is a New Time for Diagnosis and Management Hypertension?</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0001-9490-7997</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Rodrigues</surname>
            <given-names>Cibele Isaac Saad</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref>
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        <label>1</label>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Faculdade de Ci&#234;ncias M&#233;dicas e da Sa&#250;de</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv1">Departamento de Medicina</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv2">&#193;rea de Nefrologia</institution>
        <addr-line>
          <city>Sorocaba</city>
          <state>SP</state>
        </addr-line>
        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Faculdade de Ci&#234;ncias M&#233;dicas e da Sa&#250;de - Departamento de Medicina - &#193;rea de Nefrologia, Sorocaba, SP - Brazil</institution>
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        <label>2</label>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Pontif&#237;cia Universidade Cat&#243;lica de S&#227;o Paulo</institution>
        <addr-line>
          <city>S&#227;o Paulo</city>
          <state>SP</state>
        </addr-line>
        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Pontif&#237;cia Universidade Cat&#243;lica de S&#227;o Paulo (PUC-SP), S&#227;o Paulo, SP - Brazil</institution>
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      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="c1"><bold>Mailing Address: Cibele Isaac Saad Rodrigues,</bold> Rua Joubert Wey, 290. Postal Code 18030-070, Vila Boa Vista, Sorocaba, SP - Brazil. E-mail: <email>cisaad@pucsp.br</email>; <email>cibele.sr@gmail.com</email>
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      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic">
        <day>02</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2019</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <month>11</month>
        <year>2019</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>113</volume>
      <issue>5</issue>
      <fpage>976</fpage>
      <lpage>978</lpage>
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          <license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited</license-p>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Cardiovascular Diseases</kwd>
        <kwd>Telemedicine</kwd>
        <kwd>Hypertension/prevention and control</kwd>
        <kwd>White Coat Hypertension</kwd>
        <kwd>Masked Hypertension</kwd>
        <kwd>Hypertension Self-Monotoring</kwd>
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    <p>According to the 2017 American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) guideline for the prevention, detection, evaluation, and management of high blood pressure (BP) in adults, 46% of US adults have hypertension (HTN).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> In Brazil, because the levels of systolic and diastolic BP that define HTN<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref> differ from ACC/AHA Guideline, the percentage is about 25%, according to VIGITEL.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref>
		</p>
    <p>HTN is an important public health issue and the major risk factor for heart disease, stroke, and chronic kidney disease. Heart disease and stroke are among the most prevalent and costly health problems worldwide, and controlling BP is the best effective intervention in life-saving, preventing deleterious comorbidities, but only about half of those with HTN have it under control even in developing countries.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref>
		</p>
    <p>BP is one of the most important monitoring parameters in clinical medicine. Measuring BP properly is a crucial point in the diagnosis and management of HTN in clinical practice, in office settings or outside the office.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref> Home BP monitoring with validate automatic devices become an alternative to Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurement (ABPM), that is recommended as the preferred out-of-office BP method in the majority of guidelines<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref> because of its superior precision, unique ability to measure nocturnal BP identifying non-dippers and risers (reverse dipping), detects circadian variability and appears to correlate best with prognosis. In contrast to ABPM, HBPM is well-tolerated, more easily available, with lower cost, and also has a stronger association with renal and cardiovascular risk than office BP. Additionally, HBPM can give patients empowerment and a more active role in the management of their chronic disease, which is useful for monitoring the efficacy of antihypertensive treatment, thus improving BP control by diminishing medical therapeutic inertia. However, the scientific data at the moment recognized that HBPM, instead of being cost-effective and a good approach, is underutilized in the United States and other countries,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">7</xref> and a few well-designed trials are available.</p>
    <p>TASMINH4,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">8</xref> a study conducts by National Institute for Health Research in United Kingdom, recently published in Lancet, found that self-monitoring, with or without telemonitoring, when used by general practitioners in primary care to titrate antihypertensive medication in individuals with uncontrolled BP, determined significantly lower systolic BP in intervention group than titration guided by office clinic readings. The results showed that self-monitoring with or without telemonitoring is beneficial in HTN management in primary care.</p>
    <p>The Telescot<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">9</xref> is a Scottish trial that included seven studies on the implementation of telemonitoring in a primary care setting for the long-term management of HTN, diabetes and other chronic diseases. The results showed a high approval rate by patients, who found the new strategy empowering and useful. Physicians also considered telemonitoring encouragingly; however, some of them expressed criticism on software characteristics, which may denote obstacles to widespread implementation of telemonitoring in the routine of daily care.</p>
    <p>In the study &#8220;Prevalence of Masked and White-Coat Hypertension in Pre-Hypertensive and Stage 1 Hypertensive Patients with the Use of TeleMRPA&#8221; in this issue, Barroso WKS et al.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">10</xref> used the strategy of HBPM associated to telemedicine (TeleMRPA platform). The sample consisted of 1,273 participants, 58.1% were women, mean age was 52.4 &#177; 14.9 years, mean body mass index 28.4 &#177; 5.1 kg/m<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref>. The casual in-office BP was higher than the HBPM (+7.6 mmHg for systolic and +5.2 mmHg for diastolic BP (p &lt; 0.001). They found 558 (43.8%) normotensive individuals; 291 (22.9%) with sustained HTN; 145 (11.4%) with masked HTN (MH) and 279 (21.9%) with white-coat HTN (WCH), with a diagnostic error by casual BP in the total sample in 424 (33.3%) patients. In stage 1 hypertensive, the prevalence of WCH was 48.9%; in prehypertensive patients, the prevalence of MH was 20.6%. They concluded that MH and WCH have a high prevalence in the adult population, particularly in pre-hypertensive and stage 1 hypertensive patients and out-of-office BP measurements in these patients is particularly indicated to prevent misdiagnosing. In fact, it is an important result because prehypertension is a warning sign of developing long term HTN and at this stage, and even more at stage 1 HTN, they are both associated with target organ damage by increasing risk for cardiovascular and renal disease.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">11</xref>
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    <p>As described above, telemonitoring is now successful used in primary care worldwide and we have to consider this strategy as a possibility to do our work in Brazil in terms of diagnosing and management of HTN. HBPM with or without telemonitoring can be used systematically in the daily practice as ABPM does to identify patients with white-coat HTN; masked HTN; sustained control, uncontrolled, resistant, or refractory HTN like the authors found in the analyzed paper.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref>
		</p>
    <p>Nevertheless, it&#8217;s important to consider some limitations. It is a retrospective unblinded study that is capable of identifying a feasibility issue but not design specifically to extract data. The majority of the records was taken from patients that live in Northeast of Brazil and it&#8217;s a possible bias admitted for the authors. We don&#8217;t know how the patients comply with making the arterial pressure measurements in almost 30 different centers from nine states of the Brazilian geographic regions. It is a huge effort in training all patients and maintaining the devices well-calibrated and checked for accuracy periodically using a standard method with proper cuffs size and correctly positioned. Another patient-barrier is that HBPM requires literacy so that individuals are able to apply a standard measurement of BP using the same calibrated automatic oscillometric devices. Training of health professionals and patients is obligatory in all centers and is known that is time-consuming.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref> Finally, we have other variables to consider like the presence of records signal artifact by movements or cardiac arrhythmia.</p>
    <p>Is expected that in the future with an increasing use of digital medicine we will have new technologies like a next-generation BP monitoring devices, including smartphones and Bluetooth-enable telemonitoring, using cuffless and continuous BP monitoring systems that will be able to provide novel, accurate and validated solutions in clinical setting, improving outcomes of hypertensive patients.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B12">12</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">13</xref> Maybe at this time, even ABPM will be part of the past.</p>
    <p>An example of this new technology is the experimental watch-type prototype proposed by Woo et al.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B14">14</xref> which uses a wearable device with a pressure sensor close to the radial artery, giving an accurate continuous BP measurement on a personal smartphone.</p>
    <p>On the other hand, transmitted data from these home equipment and personal devices will create expectations of therapeutic decision making, if required. Another point to consider is that better levels of privacy and sensitive data security, integrity and safety control are essential, since flaws may occur with data sharing between patients and their health managers. In many countries, like in Brazil, we did not have clear technical, legal and ethical regulatory rules for e-health interventions and these are important tools to guide doctors in their clinical settings in an era of growing artificial intelligence.</p>
    <p>The study of Barroso WKS et al.,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">10</xref> brings us the results that out-of-office BP monitoring into Brazilian professional&#8217;s practice is an important complement to office HTN screening measures and is expected that a rigorous process of telemonitoring can break some barriers.</p>
    <p>In conclusion, HBPM telemonitoring seems to be a promising patient management approach, particularly in cases of patients at high risk, that produces accurate and reliable data but there is a need to additional prospective randomized controlled trials of self-monitoring BP with and without telemonitoring compared with usual care and ABPM, with larger sample size and longer follow-up to confirm the results in literature about clinical effects on diagnosing, controlling and impact on morbidity and mortality of HTN patients. Cost-effectiveness of each strategy compared to another, impacts on services utilization, acceptance by professionals and patients are also essential for allowing scientific recommendations on the employment of these new tools in daily care for diagnosis and management HTN.</p>
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        <p>Short Editorial related to the article: Prevalence of Masked and White-Coat Hypertension in Pre-Hypertensive and Stage 1 Hypertensive patients with the use of TeleMRPA</p>
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        <article-title>Automonitoriza&#231;&#227;o com ou sem Telemonitoriza&#231;&#227;o: Seria a Nova Era do Diagn&#243;stico e Conduta da Hipertens&#227;o?</article-title>
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            <given-names>Cibele Isaac Saad</given-names>
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        <corresp id="c2"><bold>Correspond&#234;ncia: Cibele Isaac Saad Rodrigues,</bold> Rua Joubert Wey, 290. CEP 18030-070, Vila Boa Vista, Sorocaba, SP - Brasil. E-mail: <email>cisaad@pucsp.br</email>; <email>cibele.sr@gmail.com</email>
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      <p>De acordo com as diretrizes do <italic>American College of Cardiology</italic> (ACC)/<italic>American Heart Association</italic> (AHA) de 2017, sobre a preven&#231;&#227;o, detec&#231;&#227;o, avalia&#231;&#227;o e conduta na hipertens&#227;o arterial (HA) em adultos, 46% dos adultos americanos s&#227;o hipertensos.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> No Brasil, como os n&#237;veis de press&#227;o arterial (PA) sist&#243;lica e diast&#243;lica que definem a hipertens&#227;o<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref> diferem da Diretriz ACC/AHA, este percentual &#233; de cerca de 25%, de acordo com o VIGITEL.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref>
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      <p>A hipertens&#227;o &#233; importante quest&#227;o de sa&#250;de p&#250;blica e o principal fator de risco para doen&#231;as cardiovasculares, acidente vascular cerebral e doen&#231;a renal cr&#244;nica. As doen&#231;as card&#237;acas e o acidente vascular cerebral est&#227;o entre os problemas de sa&#250;de mais prevalentes e onerosos do mundo, sendo que o controle da PA &#233; a interven&#231;&#227;o mais eficaz para salvar vidas, prevenindo comorbidades delet&#233;rias, mas apenas aproximadamente metade dos indiv&#237;duos apresentam controle press&#243;rico mesmo nos pa&#237;ses em desenvolvimento.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref>
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      <p>A PA &#233; um dos par&#226;metros de monitoriza&#231;&#227;o mais importantes na cl&#237;nica m&#233;dica. A medida adequada da PA &#233; ponto crucial no diagn&#243;stico e na conduta da hipertens&#227;o arterial na pr&#225;tica cl&#237;nica, em consult&#243;rios ou fora deles.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref> A monitoriza&#231;&#227;o residencial da PA com dispositivos autom&#225;ticos validados torna-se uma alternativa &#224; monitoriza&#231;&#227;o ambulatorial da press&#227;o arterial (MAPA), recomendada como o m&#233;todo preferencial de medida da PA fora do consult&#243;rio na maioria das diretrizes<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref> devido &#224; sua maior precis&#227;o, capacidade &#237;mpar de medir a PA noturna, identificando hipertensos <italic>non-dippers</italic> e <italic>risers</italic> (<italic>reverse dipping</italic>), detecta a variabilidade circadiana e parece correlacionar-se melhor com progn&#243;stico. Em contraste com a MAPA, a monitoriza&#231;&#227;o residencial da press&#227;o arterial (MRPA) &#233; bem tolerada, mais facilmente dispon&#237;vel, de menor custo, apresentando tamb&#233;m uma associa&#231;&#227;o mais forte com o risco renal e cardiovascular, em compara&#231;&#227;o com a press&#227;o medida no consult&#243;rio. Al&#233;m disso, a MRPA pode conferir maior autonomia ao paciente, al&#233;m de um papel mais ativo no tratamento de sua doen&#231;a cr&#244;nica, sendo &#250;til para monitorar a efic&#225;cia do tratamento anti-hipertensivo, melhorando assim o controle da PA, diminuindo a in&#233;rcia terap&#234;utica. No entanto, as evid&#234;ncias cient&#237;ficas atuais demonstraram que a MRPA, embora seja custo efetiva e se constitua em boa abordagem, &#233; subutilizada nos Estados Unidos e em outros pa&#237;ses,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">7</xref> estando dispon&#237;veis alguns poucos ensaios cl&#237;nicos bem elaborados.</p>
      <p>O estudo TASMINH4,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">8</xref> realizado pelo National Institute for Health Research do Reino Unido, recentemente publicado na Lancet, constatou que a automonitoriza&#231;&#227;o, com ou sem telemonitoriza&#231;&#227;o, quando utilizada por m&#233;dicos cl&#237;nicos na aten&#231;&#227;o b&#225;sica para prescrever medicamentos anti-hipertensivos para indiv&#237;duos com PA n&#227;o controlada, encontrou n&#237;veis de PA sist&#243;lica significativamente menores no grupo de interven&#231;&#227;o em compara&#231;&#227;o com a prescri&#231;&#227;o pautada por medidas feitas no consult&#243;rio. Os resultados mostraram que a automonitoriza&#231;&#227;o com ou sem telemonitoriza&#231;&#227;o auxilia a conduta da hipertens&#227;o na aten&#231;&#227;o b&#225;sica.</p>
      <p>O Telescot<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">9</xref> &#233; um ensaio cl&#237;nico escoc&#234;s que incluiu sete estudos sobre a implementa&#231;&#227;o da telemonitoriza&#231;&#227;o no contexto da aten&#231;&#227;o prim&#225;ria para a conduta de longo prazo da hipertens&#227;o, diabetes e outras doen&#231;as cr&#244;nicas. Os resultados mostraram alto &#237;ndice de aprova&#231;&#227;o por parte dos pacientes, que consideraram a utilidade desta nova estrat&#233;gia em conferir-lhes autonomia. Os m&#233;dicos tamb&#233;m consideraram a telemonitoriza&#231;&#227;o algo encorajador; no entanto, alguns expressaram cr&#237;ticas &#224;s caracter&#237;sticas do software, o que pode denotar obst&#225;culos &#224; ampla implementa&#231;&#227;o da telemonitoriza&#231;&#227;o na rotina de cuidados di&#225;rios.</p>
      <p>No estudo &#8220;Prevalence of Masked and White-Coat Hypertension in Pre-Hypertensive and Stage 1 Hypertensive Patients with the Use of TeleMRPA&#8221; [Preval&#234;ncia de Hipertens&#227;o Mascarada e do Avental Branco em Pr&#233;-Hipertensos e Hipertensos Est&#225;gio 1 com o uso da TeleMRPA] desta edi&#231;&#227;o, Barroso WKS et al.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">10</xref> utilizaram a estrat&#233;gia da MRPA associada &#224; telemedicina (plataforma TeleMRPA). A amostra foi composta por 1.273 participantes, dos quais 58,1% eram mulheres, com idade m&#233;dia de 52,4 &#177; 14,9 anos, &#237;ndice de massa corporal m&#233;dio de 28,4 &#177; 5,1 kg/m<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref>. A PA casual medida no consult&#243;rio foi maior que a MRPA (+7,6 mmHg para press&#227;o sist&#243;lica e +5,2 mmHg para press&#227;o diast&#243;lica (p &lt; 0,001). Os autores encontraram 558 (43,8%) indiv&#237;duos normotensos; 291 (22,9%) com hipertens&#227;o sustentada; 145 (11,4%) com hipertens&#227;o mascarada (HM) e 279 (21,9%) com hipertens&#227;o do avental branco (HAB), com erro diagn&#243;stico por PA casual na amostra total em 424 (33,3%) pacientes. Em hipertensos est&#225;gio 1, a preval&#234;ncia de HAB foi de 48,9%; em pacientes pr&#233;-hipertensos, a preval&#234;ncia de HM foi de 20,6%. Concluiu-se que a HM e a HAB t&#234;m alta preval&#234;ncia na popula&#231;&#227;o adulta, particularmente em pacientes pr&#233;-hipertensos e hipertensos est&#225;gio 1, recomendando-se a obten&#231;&#227;o da medida da PA fora do consult&#243;rio nesses pacientes, para evitar erros de diagn&#243;stico. De fato, trata-se de um resultado importante, pois a pr&#233;-hipertens&#227;o &#233; um sinal de alerta para o desenvolvimento de hipertens&#227;o de longo prazo seja neste est&#225;gio, e mais ainda na hipertens&#227;o est&#225;gio 1, estando ambas associadas ales&#245;es de &#243;rg&#227;os-alvo, aumentando o risco de doen&#231;a cardiovascular e doen&#231;a renal.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">11</xref>
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      <p>Como descrito acima, a telemonitoriza&#231;&#227;o vem sendo usada com sucesso na aten&#231;&#227;o b&#225;sica em todo o mundo, e temos que considerar essa estrat&#233;gia como uma possibilidade de realizar nossa tarefa no Brasil em termos de diagn&#243;stico e conduta da hipertens&#227;o. A MRPA com ou sem a telemonitoriza&#231;&#227;o pode ser usada sistematicamente na pr&#225;tica di&#225;ria, assim como a MAPA na identifica&#231;&#227;o de pacientes com hipertens&#227;o do avental branco; hipertens&#227;o mascarada; hipertens&#227;o sustentada controlada, n&#227;o controlada, resistente ou refrat&#225;ria, conforme encontrado pelos autores no artigo analisado.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref>
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      <p>No entanto, &#233; importante considerar algumas limita&#231;&#245;es. Trata-se de um estudo retrospectivo n&#227;o cego, capaz de identificar um problema de viabilidade, mas n&#227;o especificamente projetado para extrair dados. A maioria dos registros foi proveniente de pacientes residentes no Nordeste do Brasil, sendo este poss&#237;vel vi&#233;s admitido pelos autores. N&#227;o sabemos como os pacientes mediram a press&#227;o arterial nos quase 30 centros diferentes de nove estados das regi&#245;es geogr&#225;ficas brasileiras. &#201; um esfor&#231;o enorme treinar todos os pacientes e manter os dispositivos bem calibrados e verificados quanto &#224; precis&#227;o periodicamente, usando um m&#233;todo padr&#227;o, com manguitos de tamanho adequado e corretamente posicionados. Outra barreira associada ao paciente &#233; que a MRPA exige certo n&#237;vel de letramento para que os indiv&#237;duos sejam capazes de aplicar uma medida padr&#227;o da PA utilizando os mesmos dispositivos oscilom&#233;tricos autom&#225;ticos calibrados. &#201; obrigat&#243;rio o treinamento dos profissionais de sa&#250;de e dos pacientes em todos os centros, o que certamente dispende muito tempo.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref> Por fim, temos outras vari&#225;veis a considerar, como a presen&#231;a de sinais de artefato causados por movimentos ou arritmia card&#237;aca.</p>
      <p>Espera-se que, no futuro, com o aumento do uso da medicina digital, teremos novas tecnologias, como dispositivos de monitoriza&#231;&#227;o de PA de &#250;ltima gera&#231;&#227;o, incluindo smartphones e telemonitoriza&#231;&#227;o habilitada para Bluetooth, usando sistemas de monitoriza&#231;&#227;o cont&#237;nua da PA, sem o uso de manguitos, que ser&#227;o capazes de fornecer novas solu&#231;&#245;es com precis&#227;o e valida&#231;&#227;o para o contexto cl&#237;nico, melhorando os desfechos de pacientes hipertensos.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B12">12</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">13</xref> Talvez, no futuro, at&#233; mesmo a MAPA ser&#225; algo do passado.</p>
      <p>Um exemplo dessa nova tecnologia &#233; o prot&#243;tipo experimental do tipo rel&#243;gio proposto por Woo et al.,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B14">14</xref> composto por um dispositivo do tipo <italic>wearable</italic> com um sensor de press&#227;o pr&#243;ximo &#224; art&#233;ria radial, possibilitando a medida cont&#237;nua e precisa da PA em smartphones de uso pessoal.</p>
      <p>Por outro lado, os dados transmitidos a partir desses equipamentos dom&#233;sticos e dispositivos pessoais criar&#227;o expectativas de tomada de decis&#227;o terap&#234;utica, se necess&#225;rio. Outro ponto a se considerar &#233; que s&#227;o essenciais melhores n&#237;veis de privacidade e seguran&#231;a f&#237;sica, integridade e seguran&#231;a t&#233;cnica de dados sens&#237;veis, pois podem ocorrer falhas no compartilhamento de dados entre pacientes e os profissionais de sa&#250;de. Em muitos pa&#237;ses, como no Brasil, n&#227;o temos normas regulat&#243;rias t&#233;cnicas, legais e &#233;ticas claras para interven&#231;&#245;es eletr&#244;nicas em sa&#250;de, sendo que essas ferramentas s&#227;o importantes para orientar m&#233;dicos em seus contextos cl&#237;nicos em uma era de crescente uso da intelig&#234;ncia artificial.</p>
      <p>O estudo de Barroso et al.,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">10</xref> nos traz como resultado que a monitoriza&#231;&#227;o da PA fora do consult&#243;rio na pr&#225;tica profissional brasileira &#233; um complemento importante das medidas de triagem da hipertens&#227;o no consult&#243;rio e espera-se que um processo mais rigoroso de telemonitoriza&#231;&#227;o possa romper algumas barreiras.</p>
      <p>Concluindo, a telemonitoriza&#231;&#227;o da MRPA parece ser uma abordagem promissora para a conduta de pacientes, particularmente aqueles de alto risco, produzindo dados precisos e confi&#225;veis, mas necessitando de outros ensaios cl&#237;nicos randomizados prospectivos controlados de automonitoriza&#231;&#227;o da PA com e sem telemonitoriza&#231;&#227;o, em compara&#231;&#227;o com os cuidados usuais e com a MAPA, com maior tamanho de amostra e maior tempo de seguimento para confirmar os resultados da literatura sobre os efeitos cl&#237;nicos no diagn&#243;stico, controle e impacto na morbimortalidade dos pacientes hipertensos. A rela&#231;&#227;o custo-benef&#237;cio de cada estrat&#233;gia em compara&#231;&#227;o com a outra, os impactos na utiliza&#231;&#227;o dos servi&#231;os, a aceita&#231;&#227;o por parte dos profissionais e por parte dos pacientes tamb&#233;m s&#227;o essenciais para permitir recomenda&#231;&#245;es cient&#237;ficas sobre o emprego dessas novas ferramentas no cuidado di&#225;rio para o diagn&#243;stico e a conduta da hipertens&#227;o.</p>
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          <p>Minieditorial referente ao artigo: Preval&#234;ncia de Hipertens&#227;o Mascarada e do Avental Branco em Pre-Hipertensos e Hipertensos Est&#225;gio 1 com o uso da TeleMRPA</p>
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