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WDDTY - What Doctors Don't Tell You
http://www.wddty.com/raised-blood-pressure-doesn-t-cause-heart-problems-if-you-are-over-60.html
Once you reach the age of 60, you will probably be told to start taking
an antihypertensive, a drug to lower your blood pressure. It’s one of
the routine medications offered to older people as a just-in-case
therapy – but the doctor couldn’t be more wrong, new research has
discovered.
Raised blood pressure which is in the ‘high normal’ range
becomes less of a risk factor as we get older, and doesn’t cause
cardiovascular disease or coronary heart disease, as doctors have
believed for the past 50 years or more.
Drugs to lower blood pressure
should be given only to people who are younger than 60 years, say
researchers from the Prevention of Metabolic Disorders Research Centre
in Tehran, Iran. There is still evidence that raised blood pressure in
the middle-aged can cause serious health problems, they say.
Their
findings were based on a major study of 6,273 people aged from 30 years
and older, all with varying degrees of hypertension, who were monitored
for more than nine years.
(Source: World Congress of Cardiology, April 20, 2012).
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