Hacker News with Generative AI: Hypertension

Sugar Rationing Lowered Diabetes and Hypertension in British Children (nytimes.com)
People who were restricted to limited amounts of sugar in the first few years of life were less likely to develop diabetes and high blood pressure decades later, a new study has found.
Commonly used arm positions can overestimate blood pressure readings: study (medicalxpress.com)
A study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers concludes that commonly used ways of positioning the patient's arm during blood pressure (BP) screenings can substantially overestimate test results and may lead to a misdiagnosis of hypertension.