High blood pressure by itself is not necessarily an emergency
Thursday, July 7, 2016 - 21:31
in Health & Medicine
Visits to emergency departments for patients with hypertension increased by 64 percent between 2002 and 2012 while hospitalizations for those visits declined by 28 percent. A new study suggests that aggressive home monitoring of blood pressure may be driving patients to emergency departments despite the lack of other emergency conditions, such as stroke.