Don't get rid of mercury yet, says AHA (American Heart Association)
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Replacing mercury sphygmomanometers with more modern aneroid or electronic instruments is not necessarily a good idea, according to an advisory statement by the American Heart Association's Council for High Blood Pressure Research. The newer types of instrument have a number of drawbacks compared with the "gold standard" mercury gravity sphygmomanometer, the Council says in the journal, Hypertension (February).
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