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...being overly cautious? Not at all, Ting says, describing the attitude of doctors who brush off slightly elevated blood pressure as "the fatal smile" syndrome. "Patients get a clean bill of health from such doctors, and the next week they get a stroke," he says. "It's not enough to treat people with very high blood pressure. We're targeting people with no symptoms...
...targeting them with his wrist monitor, which has the potential to not only cut heart attacks and stroke globally but also collect remarkable amounts of data. One in four American adults suffers from high blood pressure, according to the American Heart Association; a third in that group are unaware of having the condition. "One's body is a very poor monitor of high blood pressure," explains Dr. Philip Wong, research director at the National Heart Center in Singapore, citing the absence of visible symptoms...
...understand. "Every doctor takes blood pressure," says Wong, but very few doctors bother to monitor it on a 24-hour basis to detect dips during sleep or spikes in the first hours after waking. That's important, Ting explains, because "nondippers have three to five times the risk of stroke" and because strokes often occur within three hours of waking, which Ting traces to a "morning surge" in blood pressure...
...after passing Weld Boathouse, the crew lost speed and fell back over the final third. In head racing, in which a boat does not have its opponents in its sights to push the squad to row faster, this slowing down is bound to occur. “Our stroke rate was higher than we expected,” Demers said. “But [during the race], we moved away from the boats ahead of us, so they were able to race against each other, whereas we were alone for the entire race.” And over the dogged...
...almost 40 seconds behind Harvard.The Crimson started in the event on a staggered start, ahead of a U.S. Rowing boat composed of the U.S. four that won gold at the World Championships in Munich this summer. The U.S. Rowing boat started fourth and overtook the Crimson in the final strokes of the race.“By the end, it was just a case of holding the Americans off,” senior stroke George Kitovitz said. “It’s something we’re all really happy with—holding off the best boat...