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1. NICE Clinical Guideline CG127. Hypertension in adults: diagnosis and management. August 2011. - https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg127

2. NHS Choices. High blood pressure (hypertension) - http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Blood-pressure-(high)/Pages/Introduction.aspx

3. Blood Pressure UK. ‘Blood Pressure Checks Save Lives’. News Release. September 12 2016. - http://www.bloodpressureuk.org/mediacentre/Newsreleases/BPchecks?came_from=http://www.bloodpressureuk.org/mediacentre/Newsreleases

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5. NHS Choices. Blood pressure interactive tool. http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/blood-pressure.aspx

6. Blood Pressure UK. ‘Blood pressure chart’. - http://www.bloodpressureuk.org/BloodPressureandyou/Thebasics/Bloodpressurechart

7. American Heart Association. ‘Understanding Blood Pressure Readings’ http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HighBloodPressure/AboutHighBloodPressure/Understanding-Blood-Pressure-Readings_UCM_301764_Article.jsp#.V-LohPkrK70.

8. Blood Pressure UK. ‘Blood Pressure and You. FAQs’. - http://www.bloodpressureuk.org/BloodPressureandyou/FAQs/Bloodpressurenumbers

9. NICE Clinical Guideline CG107. Hypertension in pregnancy: diagnosis and management. August 2010 https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg107

10. The SPRINT Research Group. ‘A Randomized Trial of Intensive versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control’. N Engl J Med. Nov 26 2015. 373;22: 2103-2116

11. Blood Pressure UK. ‘White coat hypertension (and white coat effect)’. - http://www.bloodpressureuk.org/BloodPressureandyou/Medicaltests/Whitecoateffect

12. S Oparil. ‘The SPRINT trial results’. CardioPulse Articles. European Heart Journal. Published online. March 21 2016. - http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/content/37/12/924

13. BBC Radio 4. Inside Health ‘Obesity and smoking, Blood pressure, ADHD’. Transcript. Broadcast September 9 2016. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07v0fvf

14. Blood Pressure UK. ‘How to choose the right blood pressure monitor’ - http://www.bloodpressureuk.org/BloodPressureandyou/Homemonitoring/Choosingyourmonitor

15. ‘Blood pressure measurement devices’. MHRA. December 2013.  - https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/403448/Blood_pressure_measurement_devices.pdf

16. British Hypertension Society list of blood pressure monitors validated for home use - http://bhsoc.org//index.php?cID=246

17. British Hypertension Society. ‘BP Monitors’. - http://bhsoc.org/bp-monitors/bp-monitors/

18. American Heart Association. ‘Choosing a Home Blood Pressure Monitor’. http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HighBloodPressure/SymptomsDiagnosisMonitoringofHighBloodPressure/Choosing-a-Home-Blood-Pressure-Monitor_UCM_303322_Article.jsp#.V-UW8vkrK70

19. Which? ‘Which? reveals blood pressure monitor Don't Buys Seven Best Buy blood pressure monitors also tested’. January 4 2015. - http://www.which.co.uk/news/2015/01/which-reveals-blood-pressure-monitor-dont-buys-389333/ 

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