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RTS1 A bon entendeur Tuesday 03/09/2019 High voltage on tensiometers If you are afraid of being hypo or hypertensive, many devices promise you a very simple measurement of your blood pressure. ABE has tested 12 of them. Reliability, precision, arm or wrist, which to choose? But also how often does it measure its tension and how to interpret the result? Questions that are not trivial: hypertension affects 40% of adults in Switzerland. ![]() |
AVIS D'EXPERTS RTS and the universities of French-speaking Switzerland Hypertension, an invisible and painless illness Antoinette Pechère | HUG | UNIGE Grégoire Wuerzner | CHUV | UNIL A bon entendeur 03/09/2019 We talk about hypertension when the blood pressure values of a person are permanently too high: 140/90 for measures taken in a medical environment and 135/85 for measurements taken outside. ![]() |
RTS CQFD 06/10/2019 Meeting with Antoinette Pechère, a specialist in hypertension The nephrologist Antoinette Pechère, Head of the Hypertension Unit and Center of the University Hospitals of Geneva is passionate about the functioning of the kidneys and the importance of taking care of hypertension. She is also an activist for the cause of women in medicine. ![]() |
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