Many questions, no answers.
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Max has elevated blood pressure. His family doctor discovered this during a routine check-up. Max is prescribed a blood pressure medication, takes it relatively regularly and the values normalize. 130/80. Everything good? Not at all, because many questions remain unanswered. Why did his family doctor prescribe Max a drug in the first place? Well, elevated blood pressure correlates with the occurrence of heart attack or stroke. These and other possible complications from elevated blood pressure should be avoided. But his family doctor can't tell him with certainty whether he needs his blood pressure medication, nor whether he will benefit from it. On the other hand, the family doctor cannot advise Max to discontinue his blood pressure medication, because he has no alternatives, and not prescribing anything would mean the risk that Max happens to be one of the few patients who will have a heart attack or stroke and could have prevented it by taking a blood pressure medication. Thus, in accordance with the therapeutic guidelines, the general practitioner continues to prescribe Max the blood pressure medication on a regular basis, completely correct. Although Max finds these many tablets annoying, he also realizes that he is now truly chronically ill and a high-risk patient. He would so much like his high blood pressure to disappear, to be cured of it, but that does not seem possible. So, he hopes that he will at least be spared a heart attack or stroke. There seems to be no alternative. There’s nothing Max can do about it, or can he?
More about this chapter and how you can benefit from the new medicine already today all in my book "The End of Medicine as We Know It," written in an easy-to-understand style both for patients and hopefully not-yet-patients. Knowledge means health and quality of life.