A panel of US experts said yesterday that patients with high blood pressure should be regularly measuring it at home to help them and their doctors manage the disease.
The advice was published online yesterday in the journal Hypertension, will be printed in the June issue of the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing and comprises a joint statement from three medical organizations: the American Heart Association, American Society of Hypertension and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses’ Association.
The panel wrote that an increasing number of patients are measuring their blood pressure regularly at home, and although this practice has been endorsed by national and international guidelines, there are no detailed guidelines. Read more…
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WatchMojo NewsletterIndependent laboratory tests confirmed that a 16 month old baby boy in Bangladesh, who is now recovered, had bird flu, a spokesman for the World Health Organisation (WHO) said earlier today, Friday.
As this is the first confirmed case of bird flu in Bangladesh, it brings to 15 the total number of countries with recorded human infections of the deadly H5N2 avian flu virus.
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told Reuters:
“The case was confirmed by CDC [US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] in Atlanta. It is the first in Bangladesh.”
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