Millions of people are taking blood pressure drugs they don’t actually need at all

Enough to make your blood boil

If the email I sent you yesterday about the connection between calcium channel blockers and breast cancer has you thinking about throwing out your blood pressure RX, it might not be a bad idea.

Not only does it put women at 2.5 times the risk of breast cancer and come with all kinds of dangerous side effects, but it turns out, you might not even really need to control your blood pressure at all!

Freedom for millions

In 2003, medical geniuses released a new guideline that essentially invented a new disease. If your blood pressure lingers between 120/80 and 140/90, they gave you “prehypertension.”

Yup…you were sitting at home in your recliner minding your own business. And without feeling a thing, you were suddenly sick.

Now, that is a clever way to sell a LOT more drugs.

To really set nerves on edge (and to get you to jump out of your chair and run to get your new Rx filled), the experts insisted that prehypertension “patients” were at TWICE the risk of dying from heart disease compared to those with normal BP

All of this came from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. And it was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. So it had an “official” validation that opened up a huge new market for BP drugs.

In 2003 we knew it was much more marketing than medicine. And now it’s confirmed…

Researchers looked at 17 years of data collected from more than 20,000 subjects. They compared blood pressure readings against two decades of long-term survival data.

Their conclusion… Approximately 100 million blood pressure patients in the U.S. are unnecessarily classified as abnormal.

That’s nearly one in every three of us!

Being medicated for no reason at all.

The time is long overdue to toss out this “prehypertension” nonsense. Especially now that we know just how dangerous some BP meds can be.

If you were stuck in beach traffic and missed it yesterday, you can read about the latest danger here.

Sources:
“Impact of diastolic and systolic blood pressure on mortality: implications for
the definition of ‘normal'” Journal of General Internal Medicine, Published online ahead of print, springer.com