<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 1:48 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I am taking a statin to lower blood pressure even though it was not high to begin with.  This article gives me some pause.  What do you think?</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think you're taking a station to lower your cholesterol. I think treating mild hypertension might be unnecessary but I'm not a doctor, so you should probably ask your doctor. If your treatment is working and you don't have noticable side effects from it, I'd be inclined to continue it. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Dave</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">   bill w</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><a href="https://www.peoplespharmacy.com/articles/hypertension-heresy-are-we-overtreating-high-blood-pressure" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.peoplespharmacy.com/articles/hypertension-heresy-are-we-overtreating-high-blood-pressure</a>?<br></div></div>
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