
Tony Nickonchuk
Clinical Evidence Expert at The College of Family Physicians of Canada; clinical pharmacist specializing in drug utilization and cardiovascular evidence.
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Jul 23, 2026
Episode 625: Blood Pressure Measurement Technique: Meaningful mistakes or minor details?
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16:54James McCormackHOST
excellent no that's good and now there's a uh about two or three more things we have there one of the things that comes up again on a somewhat regular basis is that is uh black bladder whether you got a full bladder versus empty now that did make a bit of a difference right tony

Tony NickonchukGUEST
And they did a lot to... ensure that really everything else about the condition was equal between the conditions.

Tony NickonchukGUEST
And they actually ensured that they had an ultrasound confirmed full bladder.
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26:20James McCormackHOST
Now you also sort of gave some, Antonio, maybe you want to comment on this, that the, you know, a five millimeter reduction in systolic blood pressure, what actually that means from a cardiovascular event perspective?
BS Medicine Episode 624: PCSK9 Inhibitors: Cardiovascular prevention panacea or pricey pokes?
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8:14James McCormackHOST
just to put in, so if you look at the pure definition, you would say that this is primary prevention, but there is a huge but here.

Tony NickonchukGUEST
Yeah, there's a huge but, and what do they say? Nothing matters before the but.

Tony NickonchukGUEST
So they had coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular artery disease, or peripheral artery disease.

Tony NickonchukGUEST
And there was all sorts of examples they gave of what qualified for those three diseases in terms of their classification.