Acute Severe Hypertension
Critical Matters
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Hypertension
I think that it's just important also to be coherent with our treatment. One of the pitfalls I often see is not recognizing that somebody has acute organ damage and not implementing the appropriate therapies. And then the other extreme is over treating people who don't have acute organ damage, putting them at risk for damage from our treatment. So you talked about the two elements that define the hypertensive emergency which are an elevation in blood pressure and the presence of acute organ damage. Could you talk a little bit more about proper measurement of blood pressure?
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