I have a list of things that I wish most of my patients had at home, and I would imagine most doctors feel the same way. So I'm going to share that list with you and see if there are gaps in this or someplace where you could kind of fill in and make sure that you have a full compliment of these things at home. Now, this is more about assessment or diagnostics. This is not for treatment. That's a different discussion. But if you were to call me after hours or on the weekend and say, Hey, I've got this situation, I'm not sure what to do, being able to get some information from these few things would likely help me make a decision. So let's run through the list real quick. This is not in any particular order. The first three or four of these could probably all arguably be in the most important spot, but the first thing I put on the list was a blood pressure cuff.
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Being able to know if you're dealing with either a high blood pressure or low blood pressure sit...
Hey, everyone. All right, so today, different article to talk about. I'm going to spend some time talking about the article and then some time talking a little bit about just, generally, what it means to you and what it means in clinical practice. That'll make more sense to you in a minute. The new article is ... This comes from CNN, not always who I go to for medical information, but you'll see why I did in this case. The article title is Nearly Half of Americans Now Have High Blood Pressure Based on New Guidelines. Let's see who it is ... according to American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and they say, nine other health professional organizations. They've come out with new guidelines for blood pressure.
It used to be that anything, blood pressure wise, 140/90 they started to pay attention to. That was kind of entry-level high blood pressure or hypertension. Now they're saying 130/80 gets you into the diagnosis of high ...
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