Thursday, May 30, 2013

Rethinking 'Normal' Blood Pressure - NYTimes.com

Rethinking 'Normal' Blood Pressure - NYTimes.com:

'via Blog this'Dr. Taylor said it’s important that the guidelines home in on the people who can most benefit from treatment. He also noted that blood pressure guidelines can end up hurting people if they wrongly label someone as being at risk.
“Maybe those people should be focusing on conditions other than their borderline blood pressure,” Dr. Taylor said. “If we intervene with these people who don’t have a lot of risk, maybe we’re going to cause more harm than benefit.”

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