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Researchers studying the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 found that elevated blood pressure during pregnancy, regardless of type and even without known risk factors, signals high risk of later cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes.

Clinical monitoring, risk factor evaluation, and early intervention could benefit women with hypertension in pregnancy.

A study of over 44000 Britons found that vegetarians had a 32% lower risk of hospitalization or death from ischaemic heart disease.

The EPIC Oxford study followed a total of 44561 men and women living in England and Scotland, 34% of whom consumed a vegetarian diet. After an average follow-up of 11.6 years, vegetarians had lower mean BMI, non-HDL-cholesterol concentration, and systolic blood pressure, and as a result a lower risk of ischaemic heart disease.

Britain’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has approved the WatchBP Home A for use.

The machine is designed to be used regularly by patients at home to take their blood pressure and pulse, for example to diagnose or monitor treatment of high blood pressure. However, unlike normal blood pressure machines, it also includes an atrial fibrillation detection system.

The new recommendations highlight the benefits of being able to detect atrial fibrillation by chance when looking for high blood pressure. AFA estimates that around a third of people with AF have not been diagnosed.