American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association announce new blood pressure guidelines

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association announced new comprehensive guidelines for evaluating blood pressure Monday, November 13 that will drastically increase the number of Americans who have hypertension. The committee that drafted the new guidelines lowered the blood pressure range of what is considered normal. That means people whose blood pressure [...]
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