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Re: High pressure=High blood pressure??

Posted by SGS on February 13, 2003 at 13:54:03:

In Reply to: Re: High pressure=High blood pressure?? posted by fog on February 13, 2003 at 09:20:43:

hypertension is also associated with OSA. It's probable the OSA in fact raises blood pressure chronically (it definately does acutely at every apnoea/arousal). Perhaps the BiPAP is not controlling your OSA as well as CPAP was???

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