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The reason Bottles/WINE doesn't work with USB devices like that is likely because WINE isn't supposed to support kernel level device access. It's for running programs and just fakes enough for that to work.
Regarding white coat hypertension, the shot isn’t always necessary. Some people’s blood pressure just goes up from the stress of the clinical setting.
It’s not the cuff position as I used multiple positions, cuffs, and sensors. All 140/90. Plus I feel it.
It’s wild. My BP/HR fluctuates alot outside of clinical, but inside clinical it drops.
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I had my blood pressure tested several times over the course of the month and each time it was high, weirdly high, like 160/100. If I drove in, weirdly high. If I cycled in, weirdly high. If I got another reading after sitting quietly in the waiting room reading my book for half an hour, weirdly high. They wanted me to start on all sorts of medications immediately. The second-last time, they got a reading of 220/130,…
Agree with all of the rest of your points, but a legitimate 220/130 is something that a typical doctor's office does observe* on occasion, so that (by itself) wouldn't have made them think their instrument was faulty. Some of those people would even be outwardly asymptomatic, as strange as that seems. * those people would be considered to be in a hypertensive crisis, and sending you for emergency care would be the ri…
Walked into the ER because my Dr forced me too. After walking into and chilling for a bit. 130/70. $3000 later no answers.
So, it does happen to people.
Regarding white coat hypertension, the shot isn’t always necessary. Some people’s blood pressure just goes up from the stress of the clinical setting.
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White coast hypertension isn't just about a clinical setting, it's more generally about the worry about the results of having your BP measured. [EDIT] OK, well maybe there's another type of hypertension which is related to anxiety about a high result regardless of the measurement setting. I have to take daily BP measurements during titration for ADHD medication. (Using an _A&D UA-611 Plus_ machine at home.) I can put…
> I can put the cuff on my arm and sit at my desk for 20 minutes to be nicely rested and calm, and then take 5 different measurements with a few minutes between each one. ... Doesn't it take more than a few minutes for one's circulation to return to normal after a BP measurement?
> I tried feeding a lot of this into various Als (Kagi gives you access to a few with a nice interface) and I found that they mostly were stupid in ways that made me think "stupid in ways that made me think" is (IMO) a really good summary of how AI is useful, as well as its pitfalls.
yup, its a decent "Rubber duck" and an ok search engine.
Regarding white coat hypertension, the shot isn’t always necessary. Some people’s blood pressure just goes up from the stress of the clinical setting.
I have an intense phobia of dentists; if I were wearing a constant monitor, I bet you could tell when I was at the dentist just by watching the blood pressure and heart rate spikes. (You'd have to find some way of differentiating them from me being in a car accident, or being attacked by a werewolf.)
Regarding white coat hypertension, the shot isn’t always necessary. Some people’s blood pressure just goes up from the stress of the clinical setting.
This prompted me to do some research, and it turns out there's very strict guidelines for how to 'accurately' measure blood pressure, almost none of which were followed by most specialists. There's a laundry list of things that can each increase your blood pressure by 10-15mmHg (eg. drinking water, sitting cross legged, recent physical exercise, not sitting with the right posture, not sitting for at least 15 minutes).
Given this lackadaisical approach to measurement, I seriously question the diagnostic validity of blood pressure tests 'in the wild'.
Regarding white coat hypertension, the shot isn’t always necessary. Some people’s blood pressure just goes up from the stress of the clinical setting.
I have an intense phobia of dentists; if I were wearing a constant monitor, I bet you could tell when I was at the dentist just by watching the blood pressure and heart rate spikes. (You'd have to find some way of differentiating them from me being in a car accident, or being attacked by a werewolf.)