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When Was Last Time You Checked Your BP, Doctor?
New Delhi: Doctor Saab can do well to use his own Blood Pressure monitoring apparatus on himself too while advising the groggy looking patient at your hospital.
Surprised? You must be but what can be termed serious, 37% doctors are now diagnosed with nocturnal hypertension and over 50% physicians have reported uncontrolled hypertension despite taking hypertensive medicines.
This has been found in a joint nationwide study conducted by the Indian Medical Association (IMA), in partnership with the Heart Care Foundation of India(HCFI) and Eris Lifesciences in which 20,000 BP readings were taken from 533 doctors including those of the IMA leadership spanning 33 Indian cities.
The aim of the massive exercise was to raise awareness about the benefits of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in the timely and correct diagnosis of hypertension on the occasion of the World Hypertension Day 2017.
Hypertension is one of the most common lifestyle diseases prevalent today with one in three Indian adults suffering from it. The incidence of hypertension is equally high amongst the medical fraternity owing to high-stress levels.
Often hypertension is misdiagnosed given the difference in blood pressure readings at home and in a clinic. Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) can help in getting a more accurate picture of a person's BP pattern in a span of 24 hour.
The IMA National study on ambulatory blood pressure measurement amongst doctors conducted in partnership with HCFI and Eris Lifesciences revealed that 21% of the doctors surveyed had masked hypertension or isolated ambulatory hypertension.
In simple terms, their BP readings were normal when evaluated through the conventional clinic measurement technique but high through the ABPM technique.
"Masked hypertension is associated with an increased long-term risk of sustained hypertension and cardiovascular morbidity. In addition to this, 56% of the doctors evaluated suffered from irregular BP pattern at night making them prone to future adverse cardiac events," said Dr K K Aggarwal, National President Indian Medical Association (IMA) and President Heart Care Foundation of India (HCFI) and Dr RN Tandon – Honorary Secretary General IMA.
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