The skeptical cardiologist spruced up and updated The Skeptical Cardiologist’s Guide to Home Blood Pressure Monitoring today. Most of what I wrote then is still accurate and I am still
A patient of mine, an intelligent, vivacious middle-aged woman who had undergone corrective surgery for a patent ductus arteriosus at age 28, recently told me that she had started taking
Early news reports of fatalities in China from coronavirus strongly implied that hypertension was an independent risk factor for severe disease and death. Bloomberg and many other seemingly reliable news
(This post was updated 4/9/2023) The skeptical cardiologist primarily makes decisions on blood pressure treatment these days based on patient self-monitoring. If high readings are obtained in the office I
(This article was updated 12/9/2022) The skeptical cardiologist found himself reading a cookbook the other day, something he heretofore had avoided. Cookbooks somehow seemed archaic and, I presumed, exclusively the
(This post was updated 4/2/2023 to reflect how the SPRINT trial changed my approach to BP management) The NIH yesterday announced that they had prematurely ended a large trial looking
Anthony C. Pearson M.D., F.A.C.C. is a cardiologist, musician, writer and a regular columnist at MedPage Today