Study Lets Patients Monitor Their Own Blood Pressure; Researchers Say Office Anxiety Might Affect Some People's Readings
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › February 25, 2004
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CHICAGO (AP) - Letting patients measure their own blood pressure at home could help detect "white coat hypertension" - a high reading that occurs only in the doctor's office - and enable many people to get off medication, a study found.
The study, published in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, was conducted in Ireland and Belgium and involved 400 men and women with high blood pressure.See the full content of this document
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Study Lets Patients Monitor Their Own Blood Pressure; Researchers Say Office Anxiety Might Affect Some People's Readings
They were randomly assigned to measure their own blood pressure at home several times a day or t...
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