Posted by bassman on April 29, 2006, at 17:15:05
In reply to Re: high bp and panic attack, posted by Donna Louise on April 29, 2006, at 15:56:49
Eeeeek...I dumped the link after I saw you were doing better and started to look up the data for hypertension/cardiovascular events; the scientist in me. I can give you THAT: if you are over 80 yo, don't bother with your bp!
I keep looking for the link, but here's a piece of info I found to put things in perspective: let's say you have a 3.2% chance of having an event in some 5 year period, say, because you have high bp (including very high bp) and you aren't doing anything about it at all (control group). Now a few thousand people in another group, those who were taking their meds and being watched carefully: their event rate was 2.6%. I guess what I got out of it was [1] high bp doesn't mean you'll end up with cardiovascular disease of necessity and [2] taking antihypertensive meds doesn't make a huge difference. Anyway, that's a different story...I hope to find the link-I thought I'd remember what I used for the search...
I do know what you mean about getting crazy about it in the future-even though you might be fine about it now.
The guy that wrote the article I was refering to called himself , "the world's laziest...[something]" You'd think that would be easy to find again.
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