aHypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece

bDepartment of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo

cTohoku Institute for Management of Blood Pressure, Sendai, Japan

dHypertension Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Mútua Terrassa, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

eShanghai Institute of Hypertension, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

fOmron Healthcare, Kyoto, Japan

gOffice of Biostatistics Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

hDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis (Retired), Tennessee, USA, Convenor ISO JWG7 Committee

Correspondence to George S. Stergiou, MD, FRCP, Professor, Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, 152 Mesogion Avenue, Athens 11527, Greece. Tel: +30 2107763117; fax: +30 2107719981; e-mail: [email protected]

Abbreviations: BP, blood pressure; CKD, chronic kidney disease; ESH, European Society of Hypertension Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring and Cardiovascular Variability; ESRD, end-stage renal disease; ISO, International Organization for Standardization; NIH, US National Institutes of Health; STRIDE BP, Science and Technology for Regional Innovation and Development in Europe Blood Pressure

Received 10 January, 2023

Accepted 1 February, 2023