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Tangentially Related: https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/10/your-doctors-office-could-be-reading-your-blood-pressure-all-wrong/ https://arstechnica.com/health/

• brandonb 2y ago
  Yeah -- in addition to inappropriate measurement technique, "white coat hypertension" can cause elevated blood pressure readings. And, of course, you have the fact that the American College of Cardiology (ACC) updated their blood pressure guidelines in 2017 to use a lower threshold. So some people with moderately high blood pressure would now be considered to have hypertension and are recommended to seek treatment.
  • user3939382 2y ago
    The threshold was 160. Then 140, then in 2017 130 so suddenly millions of new people whom were fine the day before now have a hypertensive crisis and need to be prescribed pharmaceuticals for the rest of their lives. The profit arising from this change is just a happy coincidence arising from the evidence.