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Remote Monitoring May Help Control High Blood Pressure – WebMD
Doctors already recommend that people with high blood pressure use a home monitor to track their numbers. But research suggests that home readings, alone, only make a small difference in getting the condition under control.
“We want to treat the home blood pressure,” she said, “not the office blood pressure.”
People cannot assume their blood pressure is under control just because they “feel fine,” Stevens stressed.
“High blood pressure is the silent killer,” she said. And it contributes not only to heart disease and stroke, but also to dementia, kidney disease, potentially blinding eye disease and erectile dysfunction.
The new findings — published Aug. 31 in Hypertension — are based on 450 patients with uncont…
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