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Potential implications of the new American hypertension guidelines in Australia
Author(s) -
Jennings Garry LR,
Kingwell Bronwyn A,
Hoare Erin
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja18.00104
Subject(s) - library science , gerontology , mental health , citation , medicine , psychiatry , computer science
Prevalence of hypertension and recommendation for antihypertensive medications for Australian adults using both the 2017 American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines and the National Heart Foundation (NHF) guidelines T goalposts for common conditions and redefine normal values. This is particularly the case when the normative values for common chronic disease risk factors in the community, such as blood pressure or cholesterol, aremademore stringent. In the stroke of a pen,millions of people have a disease or a risk factor they did not have the day before. Is this “the medicalisation of life” referred to by Illich?