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Half of US adults have high blood pressure in new guidelines
AP ^ | 11/14/2017 | MARILYNN MARCHIONE

Posted on 11/14/2017 8:07:20 AM PST by spintreebob

Edited on 11/14/2017 9:22:06 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloodpressure; bpguidelines; health; healthcare; heartdisease
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Trump is elected and High Blood Pressure increases by 14% and now half of us have High Blood Pressure. Damn.

Does AP ever mention who is setting these new guidelines and who changed the yardstick?

1 posted on 11/14/2017 8:07:20 AM PST by spintreebob
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To: spintreebob

Move the goalposts, sell more prescription meds.

For Big Pharma it all kinda works for them.


2 posted on 11/14/2017 8:10:06 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: spintreebob

This is a lot of cr**. But the pharmaceutical companies love it. 2% need meds....NOW!!


3 posted on 11/14/2017 8:10:38 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: spintreebob

New guide lines by big pharma in order to sell more blood pressure meds. Got it.


4 posted on 11/14/2017 8:11:41 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: spintreebob

“Does AP ever mention who is setting these new guidelines and who changed the yardstick?”

The drug companies?


5 posted on 11/14/2017 8:11:53 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: spintreebob

sounds..............rigged!
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6 posted on 11/14/2017 8:12:34 AM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: spintreebob

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.


7 posted on 11/14/2017 8:12:46 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: spintreebob; newgeezer

No one in the bible cared about their blood pressure.


8 posted on 11/14/2017 8:13:35 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Goblins, Orcs and the Undead: Metaphors for the godless left.)
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To: SkyDancer

Yes.
Just like everybody needs high dose statins, ya know!


9 posted on 11/14/2017 8:13:49 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: spintreebob

Brought to you by the pharmaceutical companies.


10 posted on 11/14/2017 8:14:56 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: DungeonMaster

No one in the bible cared about their blood pressure.
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Cared more about blood sacrifices...


11 posted on 11/14/2017 8:16:06 AM PST by HypatiaTaught (Millions more Closet Trumpers than Never Trumpers)
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To: spintreebob

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.


12 posted on 11/14/2017 8:17:09 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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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.


13 posted on 11/14/2017 8:17:11 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: spintreebob

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?


14 posted on 11/14/2017 8:17:45 AM PST by oldplayer
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To: DungeonMaster

Yeah...I am not sure if basing your healthcare on people who normally did not live past 40 is a good idea.

But, if you want to throw caution to the wind...feel free.


15 posted on 11/14/2017 8:18:34 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Had my meds ‘adjusted’. Feel like a damn lab rat. Bp is down but I feel like crap all the time.


16 posted on 11/14/2017 8:19:22 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: Buckeye McFrog
That's exactly right. The ultimate objective is to have 100% of the population diagnosed with some form of malady that requires expensive medical intervention.

This is the inevitable consequence of having an economy built on smoke and mirrors where fewer and fewer people work in productive industries. When you don't have enough customers to stay in business, just create them through legislation and regulation.

17 posted on 11/14/2017 8:20:15 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: DungeonMaster

Do Amish people even know what their blood pressure is? LOL.


18 posted on 11/14/2017 8:20:44 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: spintreebob

“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!”


19 posted on 11/14/2017 8:21:29 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Moonman62

I have the same problem. I have the exact same machine at my house as the doctor has. I usually read 120 to 125 over 80 to 85. which I check daily twice a day. When I go to the doctors once a year it is through the roof. I don’t get it.


20 posted on 11/14/2017 8:23:50 AM PST by Hyman Roth
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