Your claim sounds pretty spurious to me. The only reason I even know you're right about the measurement and diagnosis issue is from listening to a medical podca

Your claim sounds pretty spurious to me. The only reason I even know you're right about the measurement and diagnosis issue is from listening to a medical podcast in which medical doctors the correct way to measure blood pressure and diagnose hypertension, in order to encourage listeners not to get over-excited about a single high reading and go ask for drugs. My wife is on blood pressure, and it was definitely not prescribed on the basis of a single reading. She was given instructions for how to measure it herself from a list of reliable devices and did so twice a day for a week before going back. It's saddening to see this discourse on the Internet where the half the people are out there saying "doctors won't take my condition seriously and tell me to eat better and exercise more" and the other half saying doctors just prescribe meds and never recommend lifestyle interventions. Damned if they do, damned if they don't. All the doctors I actually know absolutely prescribe lifestyle interventions. But if the patients won't eat better and exercise more, what else are they supposed to do? This doesn't seem like some kind of wild mystery where the rise in population average blood pressure is being caused by false positives and people being scared of the office. The population is fatter, exercises less, sleeps less, and drinks more alcohol, all causes of elevated blood pressure. We can tell them not to do those things, but we already do and that clearly makes no difference.