Episode 206: Please stop measuring all those blood pressures
In episode 206, James and Mike start to tackle the holy gospel of blood pressure measurements and interestingly feel under pressure the entire way due to the trickiness of the evidence. We discuss office measurements, automated measurements, home measurements, 24-ambulatory measurements and at the end realize we have likely raised the blood pressure of our listeners but on principle we refuse to measure it.
Show notes
1) Screening
Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care and the Canadian
Hypertension Education Program
2) Automated blood pressures
3) MAPEC study
Chronobiol Int 2010;27:1629-51
4) Waste and Harm in the Treatment of Mild
Hypertension
JAMA Intern Med. 2013;():1-2. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.970.
doi:10:1001/jama.2010.920
5) Mild hypertension – effect of propranolol in mild hypertension
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