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Health. Hypertension: "Measure your blood pressure yourself," insists this doctor from the Nancy University Hospital.

Health. Hypertension: "Measure your blood pressure yourself," insists this doctor from the Nancy University Hospital.

Professor Jean-Marc Boivin, a physician at the Nancy University Hospital, highlights the dangers of allowing hypertension to develop, even though its signs are imperceptible. Contrary to popular belief, hypertension is a silent condition and can only be treated if it is detected. This idea is a reflection of common sense. And yet, this is where the problem lies.
A doctor at the Nancy University Hospital, Professor Jean-Marc Boivin has made hypertension his specialty. Photo Marie-Hélène Vernier
A doctor at the Nancy University Hospital, Professor Jean-Marc Boivin has made hypertension his specialty. Photo Marie-Hélène Vernier
Hypertension is a term that everyone knows and that is used incorrectly. Can you explain to us what it actually means ?

"Everyone knows about it, and yet this condition is far too neglected in France, even though it affects seventeen million French people, six million of whom are unaware they are sick and two million of whom do not receive treatment. High blood pressure is defined by blood pressure readings...

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