Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Okay, well, we know because someone has done some research and said, okay, high blood pressure is associated with bad things.

But you've got a variable that is constantly moving.

So how did those people do that research?

Because we are following on from that research.

And so most people do a much more sophisticated reading of the blood pressure, these sustained readings, etc.

Whereas what that is now degraded into is these, oh, come to clinic two or three times in a month.

And if your blood pressure is high, we'll just put you on some tablets.

If it is high and your blood pressure is damaging you, then that damage will accrue over the number of years and will then translate into signs of visible damage.

So those include dysfunction of the brain, so things like dementia, strokes, heart attacks,

Because the heart is a muscle and has to push against a higher blood pressure all the time, the heart becomes more and more muscular.

And after eventually it becomes so muscular that it outstrips its own blood supply and can then lead to heart failure.

And also where our tiniest blood vessels are in our eyes and our kidneys, the eyes can get damaged and the kidneys can get damaged and high blood pressure can lead to progressive renal failure as well.

So eventually...

Because the blood vessels supply all the organs, blood pressure will have an adverse impact on virtually all our organs.

But the most notable ones are the brain, the heart, the kidneys, and the eyes.

And this is just like poor PR.

No, I think the problem is that you can only measure that which you can see.

Dementia is something you don't actually see until it becomes very advanced.

So again, empowering people to realize that these are not processes that don't do anything to you

And then one day something bad happens is perhaps a very simplistic view.