New research could change how doctors treat some patients with high blood pressure
New research led by a professor at NUI Galway is set to change how doctors treat some patients with high blood pressure - a condition that affects more than one in four men and one in five women.
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.
Lead researcher Bill McEvoy, Professor of Preventive Cardiology at NUI Galway and a Consultant Cardiologist at University Hospital Galway, said the findings have the potential to immediately influence the clinical care of patients.
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New research led by a professor at NUI Galway is set to change how doctors treat some patients with high blood pressure - a condition that affects more than one in four men and one in five women.
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.
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Efforts are continuing to try and identify a body recovered from water, close to Galway city, at the weekend.
The remains were located off Mutton Island on Saturday.
They were taken to University Hospital Galway, where a post mortem examination was carried out today.
It is understood the body may have been in the water for some time and that this is complicating the process of identification.
Gardaí are reviewing the missing persons database and the local Coroner has been notified.
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