American Heart Assn New 'normal' blood pressure 110/70

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Medicine or marketing?

By Justin Deschamps
Oct 04, 2025

Every Time They Lower The Numbers, Millions Of People Need Drugs.

In 1970, Normal BP Was 160/95.
In 1985 It Was 140/90.
Now 120/80 Is Considered ‘Elevated.’

That’s Not Medicine. That’s $40B Marketing.

The bar has been lowered once again & under new guidelines, more Americans meet the criteria for high blood pressure & are pressured to start taking antihypertensive medications.

The AHA & ACC (American Heart Association & American College of Cardiology) in August 2025 just released hypertension ‘updated’ guidelines shifting 10 points lower across all categories in order to make more people diagnosed as hypertensive to prescribe more drugs.

New ‘normal’ is now 110/70 or less

‘Elevated’ is now 120/80 and qualifies for blood pressure medications.

‘Stage 1 Hypertension’ is now 130/80 and qualifies for even greater aggressive medication.

Here’s why this is not medicine but marketing...

The new guidelines are based on results of a large, federally funded study called SPRINT, backed by pharmaceutical giants & stockholders...which found a 25% ‘relative risk’ reduction in cardiovascular events using a lower blood pressure target.

25% reduction was the ‘relative risk reduction’ not the ‘absolute risk reduction.’ Relative risk reduction is useless & misleading, whereas absolute risk reduction is the actual percent helped by an intervention.

The absolute reduction in cardiovascular events was only 2% – SPRINT also used an especially high-risk population, so patients with low or average risk for cardiovascular events had 0% benefit or absolute reduction.

Is lower blood pressure always better? definitely not... Continues at https://substack.com/@justindeschamps/note/c-162868536

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