Monday, April 25, 2011

Did You Know--how 13 million people became unhealthy

When the blood pressure threshold that established the diagnosis of hypertension was lowered from 160 to 140 mm Hg systolic and from 100 to 90 mm Hg diastolic, 13 million previously healthy persons were transformed into patients requiring medication. JAMA, April 6, 2011, review of "Overdiagnosed."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Murray sez:
I fell into the "unhealthy" group when they lowered the safe total cholesterol level to below 200. It was too late for me however.

Anonymous said...

I became overweight when the BMI zones changed about a decade ago.