Table 1.

Blood pressure thresholds for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (top panel) and home blood pressure monitoring (bottom panel) recommended by different scientific societies

Recommended systolic/diastolic blood pressure thresholds for ABPM
	2005 AHA Scientific Statement (1)
	Optimal	Normal	Elevated
Daytime	<130/80 mmHg	<135/85 mmHg	>140/90 mmHg
Nighttime	<115/65 mmHg	<120/70 mmHg	>125/75 mmHg
24-hour	<125/75 mmHg	<130/80 mmHg	>135/85 mmHg
	2005 ESH Practice Guidelines (37)
	Optimal	Normal	Elevated
Daytime	<130/80 mmHg	<135/85 mmHg	>140/90 mmHg
Nighttime	<115/65 mmHg	<120/70 mmHg	>125/75 mmHg
24-hour	--	--	--
	2008 ASH Position Paper (38)
	Optimal	Normal	Elevated
Daytime	--	--	≥135/85 mmHg
Nighttime	--	--	≥120/75 mmHg
24-hour	--	--	≥130/80 mmHg
	2013 ESH Position Paper (4)
	Optimal	Normal	Elevated
Daytime	--	--	≥135/85 mmHg
Nighttime	--	--	≥120/70 mmHg
24-hour	--	--	≥130/80 mmHg

Recommended systolic/diastolic blood pressure thresholds for HBPM
2008 AHA/ASH/PCNA Call to Action (5)
Normal	Elevated
--	≥135/85 mmHg
2008 ASH Position Paper (38)
Normal	Elevated
--	≥135/85 mmHg
2010 ESH Guidelines (39)
Normal	Elevated
<130/80 mmHg	≥135/85 mmHg
2013 ESH/ESC Guidelines (2)
Normal	Elevated
--	≥135/85 mmHg

The different guidelines, position papers, and scientific statements use terms like “abnormal”, “limit”, “threshold”, “goal”, “hypertension”, or “elevated” to designate when a diagnosis of hypertension is made or when treatment should be titrated. In this table, we use the term “elevated”.

-- Thresholds were not reported.

AHA = American Heart Association

AHA/ASH/PCNA = American Heart Association/ American Society of Hypertension/Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association

ASH = American Society of Hypertension

ESH = European Society of Hypertension

ESH/ESC = European Society of Hypertension/European Society of Cardiology