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Blood pressure drugs for all whether or not blood pressure is high.

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The typical doctor visit starts with blood pressure measurement, and everyone with a high reading is told to come back again in three months. If blood pressure remains high, one drug or more is the next step, and then three-month follow-up visits continue indefinitely.

A team of British researchers wants to radically change this scenario. Not that these researchers want people off drugs. On the contrary, they want all adults on drugs for life, whether people have high blood pressure or not. The researchers want to change the traditional doctor-visit focus from: has your blood pressure gone down and stayed down? to: is your drug therapy causing any adverse effects?

All blood pressure drugs can dramatically reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke; and all are interchangeable, say the British researchers. Therefore, any tailoring to the needs of...

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