Almost everywhere else in the world high BP is anything above 140/90. Doctors generally won't recommend medication until you are consistently over that. In the

Almost everywhere else in the world high BP is anything above 140/90. Doctors generally won't recommend medication until you are consistently over that. In the US they continue to revise numbers down to prescribe more medication and every doctor just kind of gets in line with this. Rarely do US doctors even attempt to find the cause of elevated BP, they just recommend medication immediately. BP medication is typically a lifelong thing. It's so effective that once you start it becomes difficult to get off of it safely. You kind of "grow with" the medication and risk a heart attack if you stop. In the US it's all about money. The goal was to revise numbers down low enough so that almost all of the population over 30 qualifies as needing medication. The earlier you can get someone on BP meds the longer the average lifetime revenue. The target is 35+ years. It's basically a monthly recurring subscription to live.