What Doctors Don't Tell YouHaving no symptoms, hypertension can only be diagnosed by measuring it. Two readings are taken: the pressure of the blood when pumping (systolic), and the resting pressure between each heartbeat (diastolic).
White-coat hypertension, where a patient’s fear of the doctor causes his blood pressure to rise higher than it usually is, seems to occur at home as well as in the doctor’s office,
Doctors treating high blood pressure rely on the wrong methods to measure blood pressure, a Belgian study has discovered. ...
I have ‘bumped into’ WDDTY many times on the desks of fellow professionals, and I was always impressed by the good sense and advice it contained.
Taking an accurate measurement of blood pressure in a clinical setting is an important prerequisite for making a diagnosis of hypertension. So why are doctors getting it wrong so much of the time? ...
GPs are overdiagnosing and overtreating hypertension in normal patients because of defective testing equipment, according to a report in GP magazine (4 January 1993). ...
