"30 million Americans who woke perfectly healthy yesterday morning are now suddenly in need of expensive
hypertension treatments after the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology decided to lower the definition of "high blood pressure" to 130/80 from the previous trigger of 140/90. According to Reuters, the change means that nearly 50% of American adults, or roughly 100 million people, now suffer from high blood pressure."
Funny - in the study presented they also showed that with blood pressure under 120/80 you had a higher risk of kidney injury or failure and fainting. So they're going to bring down your normal blood pressure to very low blood pressure and then..guess what? Give you meds for it.
Absurd