Barry Baines

Barry, what do you think?

No, this is all good.

I have a few questions for Steve.

Number one is, you know, 50% of people as you get older have some level of hypertension, of high blood pressure.

And I know if me and some of my friends who happen to be

physicians as well.

Uh, one of the things that we've noted is the changing blood pressure recommendations and the bottom line, you know, really seems to be lower is better.

And I think that's, you know, Steve, what you had had emphasized.

Um,

And you sort of address the idea of when you check your blood pressure.

So I have two questions.

Number one, if someone is doing some home monitoring without being told by their doctor to get a blood pressure cuff and start checking for whatever reason, is there a set number that, you know, eight blood pressure readings that are, you know, above...

you know, 130 over, you know, 80.

Is there a number where people should start to be concerned from the point that, you know, this needs a little bit more investigation or perhaps, you know, I need some treatment to lower that?

Is there a sweet spot for the number of measurements that would give us a sense, you know, without doing like 24-hour blood pressure monitoring?

Yeah.

Then I want to just cut in one more thing, which relates more to treatment, but it's more about taking medications for that.

I know that I've read articles over the years that seem to indicate that high blood pressure is a little bit more correlated with stroke for early in the morning.

if you have high blood pressure, that strokes occur at a higher rate early in the morning, right after getting up in the morning.

And I don't know, so I'd be curious about that.