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Tony Nikinchuk
Clinical pharmacist and Clinical Evidence Expert at The College of Family Physicians of Canada; specialist in drug utilization and evidence-based practice.
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Aug 6, 2026
BS Medicine 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
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17:15Tony NickonchukGUEST
And they did a lot to... ensure that really everything else about the condition was equal between the conditions.
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17:29Tony 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?
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.
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8:24Tony NickonchukGUEST
Yeah, there's a huge but, and what do they say? Nothing matters before the but.
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8:32Tony NickonchukGUEST
So they had coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular artery disease, or peripheral artery disease.
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8:40Tony NickonchukGUEST
And there was all sorts of examples they gave of what qualified for those three diseases in terms of their classification.