There is no test to screen in any patient including those with hypertension. Professor Mussa explains what you need to do as someone living with hypertension to reduce the chance of developing AD.
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So, if you have hypertension, you cannot really screen for aortic section. There's not a test or a blood test or an imaging test that you can do to look for aortic section. What you can do is control your blood pressure and avoid spikes in blood pressure at any given moment. Meaning, you cannot have a blood pressure of 220 over 140 one day, and then the next is 160 over 80, and then the following day would be back to 230 over 140. So that change or spikes is a potential risk factor for aortic section.
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