People with high blood pressure saw their levels rise during the first part of the pandemic, as they were less likely to manage their condition, a new report says.
researchers found that people were more consistently controlling their blood pressure prior to the pandemic. But during the course of 8 months early during the public health crisis, the proportion of people with controlled blood pressure dropped by 3.43 percentage points.
“The researchers also looked at individual blood pressure readings and the proportion of patients with sustained blood pressure levels of less than 140/90 millimeters of mercury – the widely used marker for high blood pressure,” a National Institutes of Healthabout the study summarized. “They found that the patients' systolic readings rose on average by 1.79 mmHg, while their diastolic readings rose on average by 1.30 mmHg.
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