(UPI.com) — One in four U.S. adults — 59 million Americans — had high blood pressure in 2008, federal health officials say.
The report, News and Numbers by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, says 75 percent of people diagnosed with high blood pressure were overweight, obese or morbidly obese, but 15 percent of healthy weight adults were diagnosed with high blood pressure.
However, 21 percent of adults who exercised vigorously for 30 minutes or more at least three times a week were one-third less likely than those who didn’t to have reported having high blood pressure.
Nearly 32 percent of black adults reported having high blood pressure, compared to 27 percent of white and 18 percent of Hispanic adults.
About 29 percent of U.S. adults age 65 and under with public health insurance reported having high blood pressure, vs. 19 percent with private insurance and 14 percent of the uninsured, officials say.
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When will a study, financed by big pharma, indicate that 90% of americans take drugs that are unnecessary?
Once again, I am EXTEMELY skeptical of this “data.” In my own experience, I have been told for years that my blood pressure is too high — based on inaccurate, often improperly conducted readings in doctors’ offices or clinics. Then I have been put on one medication after another, which has only made me sick, and not made any kind of change in the perceived “problem.” I have just been through ten years or so of misery because of this kind of ineptness. The medical profession is FAR too ready to diagnose a problem where none really exists, and/or to give meds that are too often just a shot in the dark, and that have negative impacts on people’s health. It’s a scandal!
I’m sceptical as well. I have a renal artery disease which in ’08 sent my BP sky high. They were stented in late 2008. All tests at the time showed my heart and heart ateries in great shape. But had been put on drugs since 2004 for moderate hypertension. Recently, had seen a gradual onset of numerous side effects from Benicar HCT. Also, for first time ever blood work showed raised glucose, bad cholesterol, & lipids. These drugs are POISON. How can that be good for one’s health, along with drug-induced weight gain, losts of pain, bad sleep, all of which make it less likely that one will get the exercise they need!!!