HEARTS in the Americas: a global example of using clinically validated automated blood pressure devices in cardiovascular disease prevention and management in primary health care settings

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA. ordunezp@paho.org.
• ² Department of Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA.
• ³ Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia.
• ⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁵ Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Pharmacology and Community Health Sciences, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, Calgary, AB, Canada.
• ⁶ Resolve to Save Lives, New York City, NY, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
• ⁸ Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.