Raymond R. Townsend, MD is a professor of medicine and director of the Hypertension Program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His research has been published in leading medical journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, The Lancet and JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association. He has worked as part of the U.S. and Canadian groups that generate the guidelines for blood pressure evaluation and management.
Over the course of your lifetime, you’re likely to get your blood pressure measured dozens—if not hundreds—of times by your…
