The Accuracy in Measurement of Blood Pressure (AIM-BP) collaborative: Background and rationale

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
• ² Department of Medicine, Physiology and Pharmacology, and Community Health Sciences, O'Brien Institute for Public Health and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
• ³ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
• ⁴ Division of Translational Neurosciences and Population Studies, Department of Neurology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
• ⁵ Columbia Hypertension Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁶ World Hypertension League, Beijing, China.
• ⁷ MRC Unit for Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease, Hypertension in Africa Research Team (HART), North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
• ⁸ American Medical Association, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ⁹ Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ¹⁰ Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ¹¹ Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹² Tohoku Institute for Management of Blood Pressure, Sendai, Japan.
• ¹³ Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ¹⁴ Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Australia.
• ¹⁵ Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ¹⁶ Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ¹⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, Centre for Individualized Medicine in Arterial Disease, Holbaek Hospital, University of Southern, Odense, Denmark.
• ¹⁸ Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
• ¹⁹ Division of Cardiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
• ²⁰ Center for Precision Medicine and Research, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, WI, USA.
• ²¹ Health Sciences Distinguished Professor, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, USA.