Tag: Hypertension

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Big Dippers – Noctural Dipping and CV

There exist a normal physiologic variation in blood pressure and the wake-sleep cycle. There should be a normal decrease of approximately 20% in BP during sleep due to a decrease in sympathetic activity. Conversely there is an increase in BP just before waking and this is believed to be associated with an increase incidence of myocardial infarctions,…
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JNC8 is Finally Here

After much adieu, JNC8 has finally been released and here are some of the new reccommendations: In patients 60 years or over, start treatment in blood pressures >150 mm Hg systolic or >90 mm Hg diastolic and treat to under those thresholds. In patients 18 years with either chronic kidney disease (CKD) or diabetes. In…
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