Bryan Williams Quotes on Drugs (3 Quotes)

Measuring blood pressure in the arm is very important because it tells us whether somebody's pressure is high and whether drugs are lowering that. But there's no doubt that for patients in this study, measurement of the pressure in the arm underestimated the efficiency of the drug.

This is a system being validated by the FDA, ... It's tricky to use and that's why it's used in a clinical trial, but it certainly provides us with information about what the drug is doing.

Most of the blood pressure studies assume that differences in outcome are explained by some property of the drug, ... We said an alternative possibility is that what we measure in the arm isn't always giving us information about what's happening in the central arteries.