Emergency room visits for high blood pressure jumped 25 percent in the United States in recent years, according to a new study.
The finding -- based on nearly 4 million U.S. emergency room visits from 2006 to 2011 -- points to a need for people to better control their blood pressure by going to their primary care doctor, said Dr. Sourabh Aggarwal, the study's lead researcher.
"That's quite a big increase in the number of visits to the ER," said Aggarwal, chief resident in internal medicine at the Western Michigan University School of Medicine in Kalamazoo.
However, while ER visits jumped, hospital admissions for high blood pressure, or hypertension, fell by 15 percent, the researchers said.
And deaths among those admitted to the hospital because of blood pressure spikes fell 36 percent, the investigators found. http://consumer.healthday.com/general-health-information-16/emergencies-and-first-aid-news-227/er-visits-for-high-blood-pressure-up-in-u-s-study-says-691554.html
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