Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Let's get one number.

Then let's see whether that number is high for you.

And I would do that by looking at the back of their eyes, making sure there's no bleeding.

I'd look at their heart.

Is the heart more muscular than normal?

That tells me about that person.

And then I would say, okay, we have evidence that your number is a little bit where people would say it's high, and there's some evidence of damage.

So that makes it more urgent we do something about it.

And that should always be with education,

lifestyle management, and potentially medications.

And then I would then bring them back and I would say, let's look at all those things again.

Let's repeat the blood pressure and see if your numbers come down.

Let's see if your body mass index is a bit better.

Let's see if you're eating better.

Let's see what these medications are doing.

Are they actually destroying your quality of life or are they suiting you?

And how effective are those interventions by repeating that 24-hour blood pressure monitor?

And that is the way I think it should be done.

Yeah, I think, I mean, certainly things like fatigue, headaches, breathlessness when you're exercising because your heart has to work against a higher pressure.

No, not at all.