The
Hypertension Report
- Say Goodbye to High Blood Pressure -
An
estimated 50 million Americans have high blood pressure, often
called the "silent killer'' because it may not cause
symptoms until the patient has suffered serious damage to
the arterial system. It raises the risk of heart attacks,
strokes, congestive heart failure, kidney damage, dementia
and even blindness. That's a laundry list of horrors you want
to avoid and so drug treatment should be an easy sell to the
public. There is a massive campaign going on to educate the
public to the NEW PARADIGM: "Early detection means early
treatment and cure" -- just like with the American Cancer
Society and the war on breast cancer. And like the war on
breast cancer, it may turn out to just as disappointing. Early
drug treatment may not work at all to reduce the mortality
rate. It needs to be tried, however, IF they can find drugs
that won't do more harm than good. Hypertension treatment
is the same regardless of whether the problem is systolic
or diastolic or both. But what if they have different mechanisms?
Then you will need two drugs, which greatly increases your
potential for serious side effects. Diet, exercise, potassium
supplements chelation therapy and practically anything but
drugs is the way to go in my opinion. We discuss alternatives
in this report.
-
William Campbell Douglass II, MD
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