Wild blood pressures, oh my!

Excerpt: “Now the recommendations are early treatment, lower goal numbers and to stop drinking alcohol.

Don’t stop reading. Hear me out. As a primary care doctor, I can see why they changed the recommendations, which had not been updated since 2017. They also did evidenced-based research over years to basically say this is not working well enough because the health outcomes are not good. More professionally than that, but let’s talk.

Have y’all noticed people are getting heart attacks younger?

A lot of people have high blood pressure and it’s not because you rushed to the appointment, or don’t like coming to the doctor. For a small fraction, this may be the case, but most of people just have high blood pressure.

The sooner we accept that the better – because we need to put in the work and save your life.

High blood pressure causes your body to work hard and stress (read damage) your organs like a parked car revving up the engine forever silently. Not good for the health. So do not ignore blood pressure because you cannot “feel” it. ”

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