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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)

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloodpressure; bpguidelines; health; healthcare; heartdisease
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To: spintreebob

Fatness and boozing will do that.


21 posted on 11/14/2017 8:25:13 AM PST by polymuser (Enough is enough.)
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To: Alberta's Child

By Jove!
Ya may just have hit upon something there !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


22 posted on 11/14/2017 8:25:25 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
The ideal pharma customer is someone on a lifelong regiment of some sort.

23 posted on 11/14/2017 8:25:25 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: spintreebob

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?


24 posted on 11/14/2017 8:26:46 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Yep. Sort of like high cholesterol.


25 posted on 11/14/2017 8:27:02 AM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: Moonman62; Hyman Roth
My blood pressure is usually much higher in the doctor’s office

That's known as "White Coat Syndrome."

26 posted on 11/14/2017 8:27:13 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Headline: Muslims Fear Backlash from Tomorrow's Terror Attack - Mark Steyn)
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To: Hyman Roth

It’s tempting to think that they might profit from your having high blood pressure, somehow, isn’t it?


27 posted on 11/14/2017 8:27:16 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: spintreebob

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.


28 posted on 11/14/2017 8:27:48 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Vermont Lt

Someone needs to tell the doctors. Their standard M.O. seems to be get the blood pressure, look at a chart, and if x>y, write a scrip.


29 posted on 11/14/2017 8:29:53 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: DungeonMaster

“No one in the bible cared about their blood pressure.”

Well, they walked everywhere and didn’t eat processed crap, either.


30 posted on 11/14/2017 8:30:07 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: DungeonMaster

Most didn’t make it that long till something like high blood pressure could get them.

And walking everywhere doing manual labor burns out a lot too.


31 posted on 11/14/2017 8:30:15 AM PST by redgolum
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To: Hyman Roth

“When I go to the doctors once a year it is through the roof. I don’t get it.”

It’s called white coat hypertension. Seriously.

You get nervous at the doctor’s office.


32 posted on 11/14/2017 8:30:55 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: tbpiper

And if you tell them no they look at you like you’ve
just grown a second head.


33 posted on 11/14/2017 8:31:32 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: spintreebob

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.


34 posted on 11/14/2017 8:33:55 AM PST by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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To: oldplayer
Will this “agenda science” never stop?

No, because the "scientists" behind it all live in much nicer houses than you and I do.


35 posted on 11/14/2017 8:35:01 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: spintreebob

Boon for BigPharma, and right after failure to repeal. How convenient.


36 posted on 11/14/2017 8:35:13 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: Hyman Roth; Moonman62

I recommend taking your BP monitor in with you when you see the doc and check it against what the doc reads. It also might be worth while to request a larger cuff at the doctor’s office.


37 posted on 11/14/2017 8:36:43 AM PST by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Absolutely. Big Pharma is in complete control now. Wait til you are literally forced by the FDA/Pharma to take these meds under the same auspices used for forced vaccination. It’ll lower healthcare costs and “protect” everyone don’t ya know. “

“Oh I see you seem upset, Mr Smith.. Well you will have to wear a personal brain shock device now too. It’s all in the public interest.”


38 posted on 11/14/2017 8:38:12 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: spintreebob

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


39 posted on 11/14/2017 8:43:04 AM PST by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: Mr Rogers

About 15 years ago, a nurse took my BP using a Large cuff. My BP was high. She then took my BP using the Mid-size cuff and my BP registered 10 points lower.


40 posted on 11/14/2017 8:45:39 AM PST by TomGuy
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