RTS1 A bon entendeur
Tuesday 03/09/2019
High voltage on tensiometers

If you are afraid of being hypo or hypertensive, many devices promise you a very simple measurement of your blood pressure. ABE has tested 12 of them. Reliability, precision, arm or wrist, which to choose? But also how often does it measure its tension and how to interpret the result? Questions that are not trivial: hypertension affects 40% of adults in Switzerland.

AVIS D’EXPERTS
RTS and the universities of French-speaking Switzerland
Hypertension, an invisible and painless illness

Antoinette Pechère | HUG | UNIGE
Grégoire Wuerzner | CHUV | UNIL
A bon entendeur 03/09/2019

RTS CQFD
6 October 2019
An interview with Antoinette Pechère, a specialist in high blood pressure

Nephrologist Antoinette Pechère, an associate consultant and head of the Hypertension Unit and Centre at Geneva University Hospitals, is passionate about how the kidneys work and the importance of managing high blood pressure. She is also an advocate for women in medicine.