ISLAMABAD: Routine blood pressure measurements in people under 35 years of age may often lead to a misdiagnosis of high blood pressure, the results of a study in the British Medical Journal suggests.
Blood pressure varies randomly from beat to beat and any measurement is only an estimate of the true average blood pressure, notes public health lecturer Tom Marshall in his study.
Guidelines recommend that doctors use three measurements when deciding whether to treat patients for high blood
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