New blood pressure guidelines may make millions anxious that they're at risk of heart disease
- Written by Katy Bell, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Epidemiology and Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Millions more Australians will be diagnosed with having high blood pressure if the recommendations are followed.www.shutterstock.comRecent recommendations to lower the threshold for diagnosing patients with high blood pressure are likely to harm up to 80% of those newly diagnosed. Our analysis, published today in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine,...