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Title: Reuters: Time to rethink blood pressure tests: experts
Post by: NaDiNe on June 17, 2008, 01:41:17 PM
Time to rethink blood pressure tests: experts
      


LONDON (Reuters) - Doctors need to rethink the way they measure blood pressure and focus only on the higher of the two conventional readings in patients older than 50, European experts said on Tuesday.
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