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>Atomoxetine also increases heart rate and diastolic blood pressure a little bit, I believe most people with Sleep Aonea tend to have High Blood Pressure, this
by jmclnx 1y ago
>Atomoxetine also increases heart rate and diastolic blood pressure a little bit,
I believe most people with Sleep Aonea tend to have High Blood Pressure, this could be concerning.
- Etheryte 1y agoWe have numerous good options to deal with high blood pressure, I wouldn't say this is really a problem. Many people take medicine for high blood pressure and live the rest of their lives completely unhampered.
- hombre_fatal 1y agoMany people don’t take them nor do they want the side effects, so of course it’s a problem. Every heart attack story I know of off the top of my head involves a man who didn’t want to take his blood pressure meds.
- Etheryte 1y agoThis is a good example of survivorship bias. You're fixated on the few heart attacks you do know and overlooking the vast troves of people who never developed issues once treated.
- const_cast 1y agoNo, the survivorship bias is having high blood pressure and being fine. It greatly increases your risk of heart attack, stroke, and heart failure. Hypertension is dangerous in the long-term. Most smokers don't die of lung cancer - they die of hypertension.
- elric 1y ago> live the rest of their lives completely unhampered Blood pressure medication has numerous side effects. Increased blood pressure during sleep is the worst kind of hypertension ("reverse dipping").
- lm28469 1y agoVirtually any pill you have to take for life has negative side effects. Medicine made serious progress in all kind of ways but we don't have magic pills yet, even simple things like fixing a broken bone "only" has a 90-95% success rate without complications. Stay in shape, eat clean an exercise, once it's gone it's gone for good
- AtlasBarfed 1y agoAI can be timed for cures, or for "health regimens". Which one do you think the drug companies like?
- Etheryte 1y agoThis largely misses the point. While many people develop high blood pressure due to lifestyle choices, there's also a large amount of people who have high blood pressure for completely unrelated reasons. Staying fit and healthy is good, but it doesn't protect you against the genetic lottery.
- lm28469 1y agoHypertension isn't a boolean flag, exercising and having a clean diet helps tremendously regardless. 50% of Americans have hypertension, 75% are overweight or obese, there is a massive overlap between the two
- AaronAPU 1y agoMany people have high blood pressure in spite of being in the top percentage of health and fitness. It gets tiring seeing people blame it on lack of exercise. Genetics is a thing.
- lm28469 1y agoSure, that being said 75% of the west is overweight or obese... which aggravates basically any illness you can think of. Statistically speaking the extreme vast majority of people with high blood pressure, or anything else for that matter, aren't in the top percentage of anything positive health or fitness related
- Citizen8396 1y agoOSA causes high blood pressure; treating it could theoretically result in an overall reduction in blood pressure. If this gets approved, it would likely be at the provider's discretion. I imagine it won't get blindly prescribed to people with severe cardiac risk factors, but it may stop some from getting to that point.