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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Diabetes / May 2008Home monitors urged for all high blood pressure patients
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/05/22/blood.pressure.monitors.ap/index .html?eref=rss_health High blood pressure is a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes and death. Having it checked a few times a year in a doctor's office or at the drugstore is not enough to keep tabs on it, and regular home monitoring is more accurate, the new advice says mineminemine wrote: > http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/05/22/blood.pressure.monitors.ap/index .html?eref=rss_health > High blood pressure is a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes and > death. Having it checked a few times a year in a doctor's office or at > the drugstore is not enough to keep tabs on it, and regular home > monitoring is more accurate, the new advice says Smarter to keep tabs on the amount one is eating in order to eat less, down to the right amount, so that there would be no VAT (black fat) to cause high blood pressure from the outset. Be hungry... be healthy... be hungrier... be euglycemic... Marana tha Prayerfully in the awesome name of LORD Jesus Christ, Andrew <>< -- http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/3558812d72ab4e17? >http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/05/22/blood.pressure.monitors.ap/index .html?eref=rss_health >High blood pressure is a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes and >death. Having it checked a few times a year in a doctor's office or at >the drugstore is not enough to keep tabs on it, and regular home >monitoring is more accurate, the new advice says It might help those that do not have a problem and diagnosis is based on a single defective reading.. Too many pills prescribed for a problem that does not exist. Our greedy society is the cause of much of the alleged problem. We need to learn to ignore the artifical panics and RELAX. Frankly, we are killing people for economic advantage. ----== Posted via Pronews.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.pronews.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >100,000 Newsgroups ---= - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- guys@consolidated.net wrote in message Quoting from an article >>"High blood pressure is a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes and >>death. Having it checked a few times a year in a doctor's office or at >>the drugstore is not enough to keep tabs on it, and regular home >>monitoring is more accurate, the new advice says" >It might help those that do not have a problem and diagnosis is based >on a single defective reading.. Too many pills prescribed for a [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >Frankly, we are killing people for economic advantage. Not too long ago, maybe 7-8 years ago, a heart doctor told my MIL to throw hers out, that they're worthless, so you just don't know who to believe anymore. I wonder who recommends them, the makers of the monitors? Cheri > guys@consolidated.net wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Cheri hubby has a very expensive, 'professional quality' blood pressure monitor, complete with the stethoscope to listen to the blood/pulse, and he was trained by his Dr to use it after a 24 hour holter test showed that his BP ranges widely thru the day the cheap BP wrist cuffs and the cheap arm BP monitors don't work very well at all and give false readings all the time, i would not rely on them at all hubby had a double by-pass done last summer, he's dropped 2 meds entirely and now takes a low dose ACE inhibitor :)  Signaturekate type 1 since 1987 www.diabetic-talk.org http://www.diabetes-support.org.uk/newly%20diagnosed.html > hubby has a very expensive, 'professional quality' blood pressure > monitor, complete with the stethoscope to listen to the blood/pulse, and > he was trained by his Dr to use it after a 24 hour holter test showed > that his BP ranges widely thru the day I've been using one of those for twenty years. > the cheap BP wrist cuffs and the cheap arm BP monitors don't work very > well at all and give false readings all the time, i would not rely on > them at all I was recently tempted to buy a cheap automatic arm cuff monitor in a sale which made it even cheaper. It doesn't give the same readings as my manual cuff and stethoscope, but then my manual cuff and stethoscope never gives the same readings twice anyway. That's why I always take about five readings over the course of a couple of minutes. The range of the cheap auto meter readings well overlaps that of the manual stethoscope method, and what for me is more important for monitoring purposes, it is consistent in its differences, i.e. it is clearly going to show me progressive differences as well as the old method. Whether my BP is going down or up is a lot more important to me than what the exact reading is. In fact, because it is so much easier to use than the old method, I'll use it more often, so in practice it will be better than the old method. SignatureChris Malcolm cam@infirmatics.ed.ac.uk DoD #205 IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/] >> hubby has a very expensive, 'professional quality' blood pressure >> monitor, complete with the stethoscope to listen to the blood/pulse, and [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >easier to use than the old method, I'll use it more often, so in >practice it will be better than the old method. Yes that's very much the conclusion I've reached: BP is very variable over time anyway but the advantage of a home meter is that you can take readings whenever you choose (and they don't cost money unlike BG readings) Although there's a certain amount of scatter, some of which is undoubtedly real and some of which may be a function of the meter, the trends are unmistakeable, a steady downward curve as my BG came under control, a stepwise drop as my medication was changed, and recently a small rise (but I know the reason(s) for that). Be interesting to see what the "official" meter says on wednesday > Not too long ago, maybe 7-8 years ago, a heart doctor told my MIL to > throw hers out, that they're worthless, so you just don't know who to > believe anymore. I wonder who recommends them, the makers of the > monitors? Several of my doctors over the past 8+ years have either recommended that I home-monitor bp or been pleased that I was already doing so. I show them that log as well as the bg one. Maybe that heart doctor was like a lot of other doctors that think home-monitoring of bg is also worthless? bj >guys@consolidated.net wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > >Cheri Any well designed medical instrument has some good use. Many docs prefer to depend on their experience and instincts. IN my area, The local gossip relates cases where some form of alarm alerted the docs of a problem and resulted is earlier intervention. NOW, There is concern over cost of new items. Where does the bucks go. Equipment or to pay for the country club membership. It is interesting to watch the finger pointing by the medical crews. ----== Posted via Pronews.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.pronews.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >100,000 Newsgroups ---= - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- > guys@consolidated.net wrote in message > [ . . . ] > Not too long ago, maybe 7-8 years ago, a heart doctor told my MIL to > throw hers out, that they're worthless, so you just don't know who to > believe anymore. I wonder who recommends them, the makers of the > monitors? I've had one for 25 years. My wife and I both use it. Now that my BP is well under control, I don't use it that often. Wife checks once or twice a day. Her BP is all over the place. Meter works fine, although the printer died 10 or 15 years ago. I bring it in to my Diabetician for a calibration check around once a year. Always within a few points. SignatureNick. Support severely wounded and disabled Veterans and their families! I've known US vets who served as far back as the Spanish American War. They are all my heroes! Thank a Veteran and Support Our Troops. You are not forgotten. Thanks ! ! ~Semper Fi~ >>It might help those that do not have a problem and diagnosis is based >>on a single defective reading.. Too many pills prescribed for a [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Cheri I found my home monitor very useful in several ways. It certainly assisted in self-treating my wife's high BP with low-dose aspirin, enabling us to discover the absolute minimum dose which was effective for her; the standard recommended 85mg was too much. For myself it let me discover diurnal variations in my BP which, by trial and error in diet, exercise and activities I was able to improve. These days I use it rarely, but it is still useful. While I was travelling I happened on a diabetes assessment clinic in the Irving Mall in Dallas, Texas. So, after checking that foreigners were OK I stood in the queue. When it came to my turn to see the initial nurse, who filled in a form and checked BP, I was silly enough to mention my differences of opinion with the ADA. From her reaction she clearly didn't like that opinion. I was astounded when she said my BP was 158/90 - I had not seen numbers like that since pre-diagnosis, six years ago. Actually, I didn't see them this time as she kept the face of the monitor towards her. When I reacted she re-checked manually with the stethoscope and said I was 162/95. I then moved on to the glucose and cholesterol nurses. I've put their photo up on flickr. http://flickr.com/photos/alan_s/sets/72157604919289274/ The BP nurse was the one in white. She told the girl in front of me, a lovely slim well-built young lady who didn't carry an ounce of fat, that her BMI of 26 was too high and she needed to lose 15lbs. Have another look at those photos, click on them to get larger versions. Advice is easier to accept from those who practice as they preach. That BP reading concerned me. As soon as I got home a week later I used the home meter and saw 125/65 and I've been consistently that or better since. So I stopped being concerned. It didn't occur to me until then that the nurse was almost certainly teaching an Aussie "know-it-all" a little lesson. Nice lady. Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia. -- d&e, metformin 1500mg, ezetrol 10mg Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter. http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com http://loraltravel.blogspot.com Latest: Bangkok I did not write the top part of this post, Guy did. :-) I wrote the part about the heart doctor saying they are useless. Cheri Alan S wrote in message ... >>>It might help those that do not have a problem and diagnosis is based >>>on a single defective reading.. Too many pills prescribed for a [quoted text clipped - 65 lines] >http://loraltravel.blogspot.com >Latest: Bangkok |
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