Thu, Nov 17 – Top 10 Medical News Newsletter

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1 – Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants – The Lancet

2 – Related commentary: Bending the blood pressure curve down: are we succeeding? – The Lancet

3 – More than 1 billion people have high blood pressure – CNN

4 – True value-based care is a trillion-dollar unicorn for the health care industry – STAT News

5 – CRISPR gene-editing tested in a person for the first time – Nature News

6 – A History of Transgender Healthcare – Scientific American

7 – #WorldCOPDday – Fact Sheet: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – World Health Organization

8 – #WorldCOPDday Special collection – World COPD Day – The Cochrane Library

9 – Calcium Intake From Diet and Supplements and the Risk of Coronary Artery Calcification and its Progression Among Older Adults: 10‐Year Follow‐up of the Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) – Journal of The American Heart Association

10 – Another Dietary Supplement To Avoid: Calcium – Forbes