Re: alternatices to statins

> if 80 percent of people with high blood
> pressure can be treated with lifestyle changes, why are BP drugs
> prescribed more than 20 percent of the time?

Because patient compliance with suggested lifestyle and diet changes is
lousy, while patient compliance with meds is at least mediocre?

Because writing a script takes less than a minute, and counseling a
patient on lifestyle changes takes much more?

Adam Becker

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