{"id":249,"date":"2021-05-17T06:37:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T06:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2021-05-17T07:47:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T07:47:34","slug":"world-hypertension-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/world-hypertension-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Hypertension Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Edcare Education Care Rehabilitation Organization Wishes You a Happy Going with a Great Heart.  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">Join us.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Hypertension-Day.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-250\" width=\"840\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Hypertension-Day.jpg 720w, https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Hypertension-Day-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>World Hypertension Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Unfortunately, many blood pressure monitors cleared for sale by regulatory authorities have not undergone&nbsp;rigorous validation testing. A recent market scan of monitors available for online purchase in Australia found there&nbsp;were 972 unique monitors, but only 7% were validated. This is probably a global issue because most of the non-validated devices were supplied by international e-commerce companies making worldwide deliveries.<br>In recognition of this problem, and the need to provide resources for consumers of blood pressure monitors, the WHL collaborated with investigators from the Lancet Commission on Hypertension Group to develop this<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.menzies.utas.edu.au\/documents\/pdfs\/Blood-pressuredevices.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.menzies.utas.edu.au\/documents\/pdfs\/Blood-pressuredevices.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> tool for checking the validation status of blood pressure monitors<\/a>. The tool is designed for use by the general public, health professionals and policy makers to promote the uptake and use of validated blood pressure monitors.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whleague.org\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.whleague.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Hypertension League<\/a> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edcare Education Care Rehabilitation Organization Wishes You a Happy Going with a Great Heart. Join us. Unfortunately, many blood pressure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edcare-education-care-rehabilitation-organization-observe-all-world-and-international-days","tag-hypertension-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcare.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}