血圧の基準はどう変わった？年齢と薬をめぐる疑問

In nineteen seventy, the criteria for high blood pressure was one sixty over ninety. That's when the doctor started talking to you about your high blood pressure and whether you should take medications.

There was another method of knowing if you had high blood pressure, especially as you got older, was the systolic number had to be a hundred plus your age. So if you were seventy years old, it was perfectly acceptable to have your blood pressure one seventy over something.

As long as it was lower than that, everything was A-okay.

Then somehow about thirty-ish years ago when I was in school, the numbers changed to when you were supposed to give someone medication.

We were taught in our school that when someone had high blood pressure that was one forty over ninety, that's when you were to send them out to their primary care doctor and have them take medication.

Well, then in two thousand and seventeen, something happened, and that is s-- a study came out that said people's blood pressure should be lower than one twenty over eighty.

Now, that is a pretty lofty goal. That is very low, such that almost hardly anyone can pass that.

When you go into a doctor's office in the middle of the day, you've already had stress. You're already stressed about being there.

Maybe you've been waiting in the waiting room too long.

You've probably had coffee or some type of food prior to that appointment. Then they rush you into the room, usually put the blood pressure cuff off a number of-- over a number of clothing as you're d-dangling there, as they're asking questions.

There's a whole host of reasons why your blood pressure is gonna be above one twenty over eighty.

If you are above one twenty over eighty now, you're gonna get a talking to.

You're gonna get a little spanking, a little slap on the wrist.

The doctor's gonna talk to you. But if you're above one thirty over eighty, now that's the criteria for medication.

Now, let me know what your opinion is. Is this simply corporate greed from pharmaceutical companies to lower the margins so low that almost no one can pass, and thus, every one of us should be on blood pressure medication?

Or are, are the, uh, pharmaceutical companies so altruistic that they just wanna help humanity, that they've made the criteria such that, um, you know, they're really saving lives and, and preventing us from having a heart attack or stroke?

Let me know what you think is the answer down in the comment section down below.

Hypothetically, this may be true. No matter what our age, maybe all of our blood pressure should be below one twenty over eighty. There is probably a way to get your blood pressure to normal for you.

But the million-dollar question is: What is normal blood pressure?

What should our blood pressure be when we're twenty years old?

What should our blood pressure be when we're eighty years old?

And whatever your opinion is, there's probably research to support that. In fact, for many people that are elderly or old, it's interesting that now they're starting to say, or at least there's some research to support that your blood pressure should be higher,

that people that have low blood pressure because they're on so many medications are actually having less health and dying sooner than the people with higher blood pressure.

So, go figure. But that's the history of what we've seen so far just in my lifetime.

Now, what were they doing a hundred years ago in the nineteen twenties with high blood pressure? Were people dropping dead like crazy because of high blood pressure? And now that we're getting everyone below one twenty over eighty, we're all living longer lives? Is that the reason why people are living longer now? Are they living longer?

These are great questions to ask, and I'll leave it up to you to try to read between the lines. Now