Medical students prone to high rates of hypertension

A study at one US medical school is raising concerns
Clare Pain
Stressed female medical student at ward round

Medical students may be more than twice as likely to have hypertension than their peers, a study at one US medical school suggests.

Examining 213 first- and second-year medical students, researchers from the Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee, found that 17.8% of them had stage 2 hypertension as defined by US guidelines.