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A hypertensive patient has been on antihypertensive medication for several years. Her physician wants to monitor her blood pressure via weekly measurements taken at home. Each week for 6 weeks she takes several blood pressure readings and averages the readings to get a summary blood pressure for the week. The diastolic blood pressure (DBP) results are shown in Table 6.15.
Table 6.15 Weekly
Her doctor is considering taking her off antihypertensive medications but wants to be fairly certain that her “true” DBP is less than 90 mm Hg. Use a statistical approach to answer this question. (Hint: Consider a CI approach.)
The doctor takes the patient off antihypertensive medication and instructs her to measure her blood pressure for 3 consecutive weeks. The doctor will put the patient back on antihypertensive medication if her mean DBP over the 3 weeks is ≥90 mm Hg.
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