| Title |
Pre-hypertension: another 'pseudodisease’?
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| Published in |
BMC Medicine, September 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-11-211 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Pascal Meier, Franz H Messerli, Andreas Baumbach, Alexandra J Lansky |
| Abstract |
Hypertension is one of the most important and common cardiovascular risk factors. Defining the level at which blood pressure starts causing end-organ damage is challenging, and is not easily answered. The threshold of blood pressure defining hypertension has progressively been reduced over time, from systolic >160 mmHg to >150 mmHg, then to >140 mmHg; and now even blood pressures above 130 to 120 mmHg are labeled as 'pre-hypertension' by some expert committees. Are interest groups creating another 'pseudodisease' or is this trend scientifically justified? A recent meta-analysis published in BMC Medicine by Huang et al. clearly indicates that pre-hypertension (120 to 140/80 to 90 mmHg) is a significant marker of increased cardiovascular risk. This raises the question as to whether we now need to lower the threshold of 'hypertension' (as opposed to 'pre-hypertension') to >120/80 mmHg, redefining a significant proportion of currently healthy people as 'patients' with an established disease. These data need to be interpreted with some caution. It is controversial whether pre-hypertension is an independent risk factor or just a risk marker and even more controversial whether treatment of pre-hypertension will lower cardiovascular risk. Please see related research: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/11/177. |
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| United Kingdom | 8 | 32% |
| India | 2 | 8% |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 11 | 44% |
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| Members of the public | 14 | 56% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 16% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 4 | 16% |
| Scientists | 3 | 12% |
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| Researcher | 4 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 6% |
| Lecturer | 2 | 6% |
| Other | 7 | 23% |
| Unknown | 10 | 32% |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 39% |
| Psychology | 2 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 3% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 3% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 4 | 13% |
| Unknown | 10 | 32% |
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