Are you one of the almost one million people in Ireland with high blood pressure? Hypertension affects more than one in four men and one in five women. Now some novel research led by a professor at NUI Galway looks set to change how doctors treat some patients with high blood pressure.
The study by researchers at NUI Galway, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Medical School found no evidence that diastolic blood pressure – the bottom reading on a blood pressure test – can be harmful to patients when reduced to levels that were previously considered to be too low. The fear was that, in driving down the systolic pressure, the diastolic pressure would also be lowered, to a point where it was thought there was a risk to health from too low a reading
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Search By Live95 News Team University Hospital Limerick is the most overcrowded hospital in the country today.
40 people are waiting for a bed with 31 in the emergency department and nine in wards elsewhere.
University Hospital Galway is the second most overcrowded with 22 waiting for a bed followed by Cork and Mullingar Hospitals with 15.
190 people are in hospital with the virus this morning, up from 184 yesterday.
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