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Prehypertension—How Real Is This New “Disease”
The Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood pressure announced its latest guidelines last spring. People with blood pressures that were normal or high...
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No Benefit to Reducing Blood Pressure Below 140/90
A new Cochrane review identified the seven trials that had tested this ideal and found that it didn’t hold up to scientific scrutiny. Using more drugs to reduce blood pressure lower than the standard...
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Drugs to prevent stroke and heart attack
Drug treatment of risk factors like bone loss is firmly entrenched in the American psyche as prevention. More accurately, though, this type of drug treatment is just risk reduction, or lowering the...
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Reducing salt intake has no effect on heart risk
Reducing the salt in your diet may lower your blood pressure a bit, but it will not reduce your chances of dying from heart disease or having a heart attack or stroke. That's the conclusion of a new...
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Drugs for mild hypertension
Are you taking drugs for mild hypertension, yet you’ve not had a heart attack, stroke, or a diagnosis of heart disease? A new review of all studies that followed people who fit this description could...
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