March 09, 2015
by Sylvia Booth Hubbard
(NewsMax.com) For years we’ve been told that high blood pressure is the “silent killer” and that too many people put their lives in danger by not taking medications to control it.
Now, a new study indicates that the opposite problem is prevalent: Blood pressure often is overtreated, and it increases patients’ risk of kidney failure and death.
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Researchers at Kaiser Permanente Southern California studied the records of almost 400,000 people with high blood pressure who were being treated with medication.
They found that patients whose readings were between 130/60 and 139/79 — a range doctors consider “prehypertension” — had the lowest kidney failure rates. Patients with readings considered ideal by experts — below 120/80 — were at substantially increased risk.
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