When to take Blood Pressure Pills; ADHD; Recurrent Fevers; Head lice
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
When is the best time of day to take blood pressure pills? A new study from Spain has hit the headlines, with dramatic results that could change practice but are the findings too good to be true? And why is getting help for ADHD or other behavioural conditions such a struggle for parents, schools and doctors? Plus recurrent fevers - a rare genetic condition that feels like flu every day. And evidence for the best way to get rid of headlice!
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| 0:34.6 | Hello, coming up in the next half hour, I visit a clinic dedicated to recurrent fevers |
| 0:40.3 | that's transforming the lives of families with a rare genetic condition that makes them feel like they have flu every single day. |
| 0:49.3 | With my daughter, it made a difference with her within an hour. I mean, I can remember we called in something to eat on the way home and it was already transforming her. It is absolutely life-changing and it was overwhelming |
| 0:58.7 | how much of a difference it made. More on that family's story later, as well as the Postcode |
| 1:04.1 | lottery for conditions like ADHD. Why does it have to be such a struggle for some parents to get |
| 1:10.4 | help with children who have emotional, developmental or behavioural problems? |
| 1:15.4 | And Headlice, Professor Carl Hennigan and GP Margaret McCartney give an insider's view on the best way to get rid of them. |
| 1:23.2 | But first, high blood pressure and new research from Spain that's caused quite a stir. |
| 1:28.9 | Does it matter what time of day you take your pills? |
| 1:32.3 | The Hygea study followed 20,000 volunteers on medication to lower their blood pressure |
| 1:37.2 | and found that those taking theirs at night were half as likely to die from a stroke or heart attack, |
| 1:43.4 | a finding that could transform practice right across the world. |
| 1:47.4 | Dr. Amy Rogers is Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Dundee and part of a team behind a similar UK investigation, the Time Study. |
| 1:56.2 | Amy, this has been of interest for a while. Indeed, it was one of the subjects we covered in the very first edition of Inside Health eight years ago. So we've been expecting these results, but I don't |
| 2:05.5 | think anyone thought they'd be quite so dramatic. We were quite surprised by the level of benefit |
| 2:12.2 | that this study was reporting for evening dosing. I mean, to be clear, roughly halving your chances of dying of a heart attack and stroke, |
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