'Kendall, here in UK, if one has a BP of 210 over 107, one would be hospitalised immediately as a medical emergency.' Not so: the nurse apologised for a malfunctioning monitor when I clocked up 212/140, tried another machine and got the same result. I was immediately placed on a regime of bisoprolol, perindropil and co-amilofruse, which soon got it back to an average of 120/76. At the time I was managing a hectic office, and my father was in a terminal illness. May have had something to do with it...
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