High blood pressure in the doctor's office may not predict heart risks
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 17:56
in Health & Medicine
Continuously measuring blood pressure may help predict heart disease and related deaths among individuals with treatment-resistant hypertension, while blood pressure readings taken in a medical office do not appear to predict future heart risks, according to a report in 24 November issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
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