Under New Guidelines, Millions more Americans Have High Blood Pressure

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By Julie Fidler

In a recently published study, scientists warn that new guidelines for high blood pressure would send the number of people considered hypertensive soaring. [1]

New guidelines released by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have lower values for what is considered high blood pressure, and a lower threshold at which hypertension medications would be recommended.

When researchers from the Yale School of Medicine analyzed nationally representative data from adults aged 45-75 in the United States and China, they realized that if both countries adopted the new guidelines, more than half of those in that age group would …read more

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