1 in 20 is "most"? What about the other 19 in 20? I was under the impression that the most common cause was being fat.
"Most common cause", singular.
A new scan to detect and cure the commonest cause of high blood pressure
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#121 in 20 is "most"? What about the other 19 in 20? I was under the impression that the most common cause was being fat.
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#13Hilariously, I think the HN anti-clickbait filter made this title more clickbaity: The original title was "Ten-minute scan enables detection and cure of the commonest cause of high blood pressure", which HN helpfully removed the number from... leading to "Minute scan detects and cures of most common cause of high blood pressure". And a one minute scan would be even more impressive, but that's not what it is...
I interpreted it as a minute scan (i.e. very small, of small importance). But it's a CT-scan which very much is not a minute scan.
Re: A new scan to detect and cure the commonest cause of high blood pressure
#14Hilariously, I think the HN anti-clickbait filter made this title more clickbaity: The original title was "Ten-minute scan enables detection and cure of the commonest cause of high blood pressure", which HN helpfully removed the number from... leading to "Minute scan detects and cures of most common cause of high blood pressure". And a one minute scan would be even more impressive, but that's not what it is...
I was picturing someone with an electron microscope, scanning the most minute of things...
But the rest of the shortened title is straight-up hashbrowns. You are fixing a common problem with a scan? That's not how medicine works.
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Re: A new scan to detect and cure the commonest cause of high blood pressure
#16Hilariously, I think the HN anti-clickbait filter made this title more clickbaity: The original title was "Ten-minute scan enables detection and cure of the commonest cause of high blood pressure", which HN helpfully removed the number from... leading to "Minute scan detects and cures of most common cause of high blood pressure". And a one minute scan would be even more impressive, but that's not what it is...
Yes, that happens sometimes.
I've changed it to clearer language from the first paragraph.
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#17Can someone who knows more about the field to comment on whether this is as revolutionary as it sounds?
- this only concerns 5 - 10% of all hypertension patients
- ~50% of adult Americans have hypertension
- scanning all medication-non-responders (= people suffering from "resistant hypertension") and operating on all of them to remove the causative nodules sounds like quite the tall order
- doctors won't just suddenly start sending all the resistant hypertension patients to CTs to diagnose this cause, instead they will continue to escalate their patients anti-hypertensive medication, i.e. adding an aldosterone antagonist to the three other maximum dosage blood pressure lowering medications the patient already takes.
- this might become an option for people suffering from resistant hypertension that are receiving expensive, excellent state of the art treatment
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#19Looks like the cure is surgery, and with the sorry state of the US healthcare, that's hardly a solution.
I completely agree. Running the numbers in my head that would be up to 10 million patients this surgery would be relevant for in the US.
Re: A new scan to detect and cure the commonest cause of high blood pressure
#20Can someone who knows more about the field to comment on whether this is as revolutionary as it sounds?
- this only concerns 5 - 10% of all hypertension patients - ~50% of adult Americans have hypertension - scanning all medication-non-responders (= people suffering from "resistant hypertension") and operating on all of them to remove the causative nodules sounds like quite the tall order - doctors won't just suddenly start sending all the resistant hypertension patients to CTs to diagnose this cause, instead they will…
isn't a single CT scan and surgery cheaper than 40 years of medication?