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A blood pressure 50% below normal is 100% more worrisome than one 50% above normal.
“The Gentleman Who Made Scholar” by @StevenLevy https://medium.com/@stevenlevy/d71289d9a82d?source=tw-lo_15d9a714377b-1413682887924 …
Paradoxically, Aetna references #CHEP guidelines for its coverage rationale: http://www.aetna.com/cpb/medical/data/1_99/0025.html … #2014CHC 3/3
#2014CHC #CHEP 2015: price of ABPM varies from C$ 70-120. Despite @HQOntario report, OHIP doesn't pay: http://www.hqontario.ca/en/eds/tech/pdfs/2012/rev_ABPM_May.pdf … 2/
Release of the CHEP 2015 draft recommendations https://storify.com/hswapnil/release-of-the-chep-2015-draft-recommendations …
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24 hr ABPM prefd > home BP for this reason: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22083163/ … better predictor of CV events @HTNCanada #2014CHC pic.twitter.com/Lpf3rkutJO
Quote from Bill Jeffrey from #CHC2014 "we tax fruit salad but not fruit loops". Referring to Canadian food policy.
To Siri With Love: Boy With #Autism Became BFF''s With Apple’s Siri http://nyti.ms/1yLlAet via @nytimes @stevesilberman #ASD
Fantastic (long read) account from an ID doc http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n20/paul-farmer/diary … #Ebola ht @CMichaelGibson
Here's the @OttawaHospital room meant to stop #Ebola (with video) http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/heres-the-room-meant-to-stop-ebola-in-ottawa/ … #ottnews
Canada’s first comprehensive initiative to bring researchers and partners across disciplines to tackle vascular diseases together.
@hswapnil Nothing ever refers to FMD. :) Point being—if any pt's QOL improved via angio vs. great gobs of drugs, it's worth considering.
Main rationale for out of office measurements: rule out white coat HT (9-30% prevalence) #2014CHC #CHEP @HTNCanada
#2014CHC for diagnosis of HT, if 1st SBP 140-179 and/or DBP 90-109 then do an out of office BP (ABPM >>> home BP) #CHEP 2015 @HTNCanada
#2014CHC reminder: these are *draft* #CHEP 2015 recommendations awaiting approval @HTNCanada
#2014CHC #CHEP 2015: for Office: preferably electronic oscillometric rather than auscultatory (mercury) Grade C @HTNCanada
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