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Article: When does your blood pressure fluctuate? With today's technology, it is easy to track what makes your blood pressure rise or fall. Become a partner in your healthcare.(Healthy Heart Report)
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- The Saturday Evening Post
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Did you know that what you put in your eyes can change your blood pressure?
We invite all our readers who use eye drops for glaucoma to participate in an experiment using a blood pressure cuff or automatic monitor to measure their blood pressure levels morning and night.
Some common eye drops for glaucoma include Alphagan, Trusopt, Timoptic, and Lumigan. We would like to investigate how much some of the eye drops can lower systemic blood pressure.
Even if you are fortunate enough not to have glaucoma, a record of your blood pressure fluctuations might become valuable to your cardiologist, should hypertension emerge later.
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