Originally Posted by
PaulH
Best advice I can give: NEVER drive to the doctor's office -- always ride a bike.
I ride my bike to my doctor's office. Even so, I usually get my blood pressure measured twice - once during the routine vitals at the beginning of the visit, and once near the end. Guess which measurement is lower?
Originally Posted by
McBTC
You mean, the guy's blood pressure may have been totally normal before he went out in the cold and died while shoveling his car out of the snow? That's great news...
We have very good inpatient biometrics data. Oddly, very little realtime biometric data available while shoveling snow.
Excellent realtime biometric data though when someone has to tell Houston we have a problem though. (Spoiler alert - pulse rate and blood pressure were quite high.)
The bottom line - the correlation of adverse outcomes with RESTING BLOOD PRESSURE is well established. It is also established that there is a causation - high resting blood pressure increases the odds of adverse outcomes.
This study shows that the correlation of outpatient blood pressure measurements in the first few minutes of an exam (the "vitals") with resting blood pressure is poor.
-mr. bill