Conventional blood pressure measurement

O’Brien E, O’Malley K. The ABC of Blood Pressure Measurement: reconciling the controversies: a comment on the “literature”. Brit Med J 1979;2:1201-1202.

O’Brien E, O’Malley K. ABC of Hypertension. British Medical Association Publications. London.1981.

O’Brien E, O’Malley K. Essentials of Blood Pressure Measurement. Churchill Livingstone. Edinburgh. 1981.

Burke MJ, Towers HM, O’Malley K, Fitzgerald D, O’Brien E. Sphygmomanometers in Hospitals and Family Practice: Problems and Recommendations. Br Med J 1982;285:469-471.

Fitzgerald D, O’Malley K, O’Brien E. Clinical Examination of the Hypertensive Patient including Blood Pressure Measurement. In: Hypertensive Cardiovascular Disease: Pathophysiology and Treatment. Ed. A. Amery. Martin Ninhoff. The Hague. 1982.

O’Callaghan WG, Fitzgerald D, O’Malley K, O’Brien E. Accuracy of indirect blood pressure measurement in the elderly. Brit Med J 1983;286:1545-1546.

O’Brien E, Fitzgerald D, O’Malley K. Blood Pressure Measurement: current practice and future trends. Brit Med J 1985;290:729-734.

Harrington K, Maguire S, Wansa, O’Malley K, O’Brien E. The Roll-over test; a non-specific procedure. J Ir Coll Physicians & Surg 1985;14:150. (Abstract)

Fitzgerald D, Marron J, O’Malley K, O’Brien E. The difference in blood pressure between arms. J Ir Coll Physicians & Surg 1985;14:160. (Abstract)

Kenny RA, Brennan M, O’Malley K, O’Brien E. Blood Pressure Measurements in Borderline Hypertension. J Hypertens 1987;5(Suppl 5):S483-S485.

Petrie JC, O’Brien E, Littler WA, deSwiet M. Blood Pressure Measurement. British Medical Association. London. 1987.

O’Brien E, O’Malley K. Overdiagnosing hypertension. Br Med J 1988;297:1211-1212.

Cox JP, England R, Cox T, Walsh JB, Coakley D, Feely J, O’Malley K, O’Brien E. Do patients with stiff arteries have high blood pressure? J Hypertens 1989;7 (suppl6):S82-S83.

Roche V, O’Malley K, O’Brien E. How ‘scientific’ is blood pressure measurement in leading medical journals? J Hypertens 1990;8:1167-1168.

O’Brien E, O’Malley K. Techniques for measuring blood pressure and their interpretation. In: Practical management of hypertension. Ed. W. Birkenhager. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht, Boston, London. 1990.Pp.1-24.

O’Brien E, Cox J, O’Malley K. The future. In Blood Pressure Measurement. Eds. E. O’Brien and K. O’Malley. HANDBOOK OF HYPERTENSION. Eds. W.H.Birkenhager and J.L.Reid. Elsevier. Amsterdam. 1991. pp. 380-386

Mancia G, Brunner HR, Conway J, O’Brien E, Pessina AC, Staessen J, Zanchetti A. Round Table Discussion: What blood pressure to measure? J Hypertens 1991;9(Suppl 6):S412-S418

O’Brien E, O’Malley K. Editors: Blood Pressure Measurement. Volume 14. HANDBOOK OF HYPERTENSION. Eds. W.H.Birkenhager and J.L.Reid. Elsevier. Amsterdam. 1991. Pp.1-460.

Staessen J, O’Brien E, Atkins N, Bulpitt C, Cox J, Fagard R, O’Malley K, Thijs L, Amery A. The increase in blood pressure with age and body mass index is overestimated by conventional sphygmomanometry. Am J Epidemiol 1992;136:450-459.

O’Brien E, O’Malley K. Clinical Blood Pressure Measurement. In: Clinical Hypertension. Ed. JIS Robertson. HANDBOOK OF HYPERTENSION. Snr. eds W. Birkenaeger, JL Reid. Volume 15. Elsevier. Holland. 1992.pp.14-50.

O’Brien E, Atkins N, O’Malley K. Selecting the correct bladder according to the distribution of arm circumference in the population. J Hypertens 1993;11:1149-50 (Abstract)

O’Brien E. Blood pressure Measurement. In Textbook of Hypertension. Ed. JD Swales.Blackwell Scientific Publications. Oxford. 1994. pp. 989-1008.

O’Brien E. Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurement and Insulin Resistance. Hypertension 1995;25:461.

O’Brien E. The dilemma of choice: which bladder for accurate measurement? Zeitschrift für Kardiologie.1996;85(Suppl 3);26-31.

O’Brien E. A century of confusion: which bladder for accurate blood pressure measurement? J Human Hypertension 1996;10:565-572.

O’Brien E, Beevers G, Marshall D. ABC KÖNYVEK HYPERTONIA. Literatura Medica Kiadó. Hyngary. 1997

O’Brien E. Will the millimetre of mercury be replaced by the kilopascal. J Hypertens 1998;16:259-261

Petrie J, O’Brien E, Littler W, de Swiet M, Padfield P, Coats A, Mee F CD-ROM on Blood Pressure Measurement. BMJ Publications. 1998

Keary L, Atkins N, O’Brien E. Terminal digit preference and heaping in blood pressure measurement. J Human Hypertens 1998:12:787-788 (Abstract)

O’Brien E. “Blood pressure monitoring becomes automated.” American College of Cardiology ACCEL Interview. December 1999.

G. Mansfield, P. Owens, N. Atkins, E. O’Brien. What is the importance of Inter-arm differences in blood pressure? J Hypertens 1999;17 (suppl 3): S22 (Abstract)

Staessen J, O’Brien E. Reliability of Self-Measured Blood Pressure for Research Purposes. Arch Intern Med 1999;159:2365-2366 (Letter)

Beevers G, Lip GHY, O’Brien E. ABC of Hypertension. Part I. Sphygmomanometry: Factors common to all techniques. BMJ 2001;322:981-5

Beevers G, Lip GHY, O’Brien E. ABC of Hypertension. Part II. Conventional sphygmomanometry: Technique of auscultatory blood pressure measurement. BMJ 2001;322:1043-1047

Beevers G, Lip GYH, O’Brien E. ABC of Hypertension. 4th Edition.2001. BMJ Books. London

Kuznetsova T, Staessen J, Kawecka-Jaszcz K, Babeanu S, Casiglia E, Filipovsky J, Nachev C, Nikitin Y, Peleska, O’Brien E on behalf of the EPOGH investigators. Quality control of the blood pressure phenotype in the European Project on Genes in Hypertension. Blood Pressure Monit 2002:7:215-224

Wingfield D, Cooke J, Thijs L, Staessen J, Fletcher A, Fagard R, Bulpitt CJ on behalf of the Syst-Eur Investigators. Terminal digit and single number preference in the Syst-Eur trial: influence of quality control. Blood Press Monit 2002;7:169-177

O’Brien E. Blood pressure measurement is changing! Heart 2001;85:3-5

O’Brien E, Asmar R, Beilin L, Imai Y, Mallion J-M, Mancia G, Mengden T, Myers M, Padfield P, Palatinin P, Parati G, Pickering T, Redon J, Staessen J, Stergiou G, Verdecchia P on behalf of the European Society of Hypertension Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring. European Society of Hypertension recommendations for conventional, ambulatory and home blood pressure measurement. J Hypertens 2003;21:821–848

O’Brien E, Asmar R, Beilin L, Imai Y, Mancia G, Mengden T, Myers M, Padfield P, Palatini P, Parati G, Pickering T, Redon J, Staessen J, Stergiou G, Verdecchia P on behalf of the European Society of Hypertension Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring. Practice guidelines of the European Society of Hypertension for clinic, ambulatory and self blood pressure measurement. J Hypertens 2005, 23:697–701

O’Brien E, Sever P. Is systolic blood pressure all that matters? BMJ 2009;339:138-139