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...frame. His family history worked against him too. Both his parents have high blood pressure, and his father and brother are diabetic. And he didn't do himself any favors by allowing seven years to elapse since his last checkup. When his persistent fatigue finally drove him to a doctor, he learned the wages of so much neglect. His blood pressure was topping out at a monitor-popping 166/120, and he was in the early stages of heart failure...
What's more, the closer experts look at how doctors actually diagnose high blood pressure, the more they think they've been grading on a too generous curve. Traditionally, readings between 120/80 and 140/90 have been labeled borderline, less likely to require drugs or other intervention. Now the NHLBI believes that patients may begin approaching danger when their systolic reading--the first number--is as low as 115. Although pressure varies from moment to moment and day to day, a reading that hits the danger zone on two separate visits to the doctor may signal trouble...
Women suffering from pregnancy hypertension may be advised not to take some or all of the five classes of drugs, although the doctor must weigh the risks of the medication against the risks of hypertension. In moderate cases, proper diet and exercise may be the best prescription until after the birth, when blood pressure will settle back to whatever its natural level will be and the need for drugs can be looked at again...
...always wanted to do three things,” says Safo. “I want to be a doctor, a teacher and a librarian. I’ll be a librarian when I’m 70 and I can’t think any more...
...didn’t realize until I spoke to a doctor in California last night that his condition is really very serious,” Fu said. “She told me that Jianli needs to be immediately taken care...