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Recommendation: Check blood pressure when sitting….but on occasion, when standing after 1-2 minutes to look for a BP drop. When you check your blood pressure, it is generally recommended that you do this in the sitting position. That is the most accurate and consistent way to check your pressure, but doctors know that sometimes …
A patient told me about a 60-minutes piece on the over 80 population, covering the 90+ project at University of Irvine in California. There are many findings from the study that are contrary to population belief and expectation, and which they feel are revealed in the data they have collected to residents of Leisure World, …