Does AP ever mention who is setting these new guidelines and who changed the yardstick?
Move the goalposts, sell more prescription meds.
For Big Pharma it all kinda works for them.
This is a lot of cr**. But the pharmaceutical companies love it. 2% need meds....NOW!!
New guide lines by big pharma in order to sell more blood pressure meds. Got it.
“Does AP ever mention who is setting these new guidelines and who changed the yardstick?”
The drug companies?
sounds..............rigged!
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If you are getting regular check ups and blood work, blood pressure is but one of several metrics. If you are cruising along fine, and then all of a sudden there is a change—that is a signal.
As single metric is never a good reason to do much. You have to understand how the machines works and all of the parts that go into it.
No one in the bible cared about their blood pressure.
Brought to you by the pharmaceutical companies.
They reccomend getting your BP measured once a year?
If you are only getting checked once a year, a salut!
It seems that everywhere I go, I am getting my BP taken.
My blood pressure is usually much higher in the doctor’s office, sometimes getting over 160. At home it’s routinely between 100 and 110. If I took the same medication to get my blood pressure down in the doctor’s office that I used to take, I wouldn’t be able to function. My cardiologist isn’t concerned unless it gets over 150 in the office. Additionally, most of the time the blood pressure reading isn’t taken correctly. For instance, you should get a few minutes to relax, and the arm should be horizontal. It’s rare that both are done.
Needless to say, I think these new guidelines are baloney and being done for nefarious reasons.
A “journal” titled “Hypertension” finds that blood pressure needs to be lowered? I am shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
That would be like “Smoking Today” finding that recreational tobacco smoking was good for you!
Will this “agenda science” never stop?
“But that is prone to error, and many places now use automated devices.”
Actually, the automated ones give more high readings. I’ve never met a doctor who trusted the machine over a manual reading.
And honestly, I think defining it downward is stupid. No one gets out of here alive...
Like I told the doctor on my last visit, “If I have to give up pizza, bacon and beer, I might as well be dead now!”
Fatness and boozing will do that.
Last week I was told by my doctor that my BP is “great”. Yesterday I found out that I have another medical problem. So if I go to Europe I’ll be OK again?
Exactly. See, NOW the clowns can claim “people are getting sicker under Trump!”
Just like after Hussein’s death panels law was passed, suddenly it wasn’t necessary for women to get a mammogram every year.
There is a very high correlation between sleep apnea and high blood pressure. If you snore at night or your partner tells you that you snore, please, please, get a sleep apnea study done.
I did not and now I am on daily BP meds and likely will be for the rest of my life.
Boon for BigPharma, and right after failure to repeal. How convenient.
130/80 is tuff mark for old folks
Hardest normal is men’s average weight at height
I’m six five and to be fit I’m supposed to be 180
45 pounds less than now
Six five and 180 is Galbraith skinny
The women’s norms were made more forgiving after bots came to power
Yes
Read the article