Researchers concluded that people over 60 years of age received no clear benefits from hypertensive medications until they showed a systolic of 150 and diastolic of 90. Simply put, too many people are on medications that are of no proven benefit.
As might be expected, the National Heart Association disagrees with the results of the study and wants to conduct one of its own. Please remember, not all studies are valid and all contain biases. However, the conclusion about the necessity for medications for hypertension was made after looking at data that were collected over more than a decade. Any conclusions drawn by a single study by the NHA would most likely be flawed by biases, especially since the member doctors of the NHA were so quick to criticize the conclusions. We have to remember that 75% of all doctors in this country do have some financial connection with the pharmaceutical companies whose drugs they prescribe. No one, that I know of, has ever even hinted that this could be considered a conflict of interest. Perhaps, it's not.
My suggestion is for those in any age group to at least consider alternatives to taking hypertensive medication, as I know of a number of studies, done over 30 years ago, concluded that 50% of all people on hypertensive medications are not helped by them....at all. Yet, we know of the explosion of prescription meds for high blood pressure. Is anyone else out there confused, too?
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