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Older patients with hypertension less likely to receive lifestyle advice

Posted on Nov 19th 2007 5:26PM by Brian White

Filed Under: Fitness

It's sad to hear that a new study concluded that older Americans are less likely than younger patients to receive lifestyle guidance if hypertension is in the picture.

Why on earth would doctors not want to suggest preventative measures to patients over 60 who have high blood pressure from making changes to lower it? Isn't there an oath in there somewhere that's being neglected here?

Over 28,000 adults were surveyed here before the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill research team came up with their conclusions.

Sad.

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Tags: aging, aging advice, AgingAdvice, older, patients

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Kidding, right? 11-19-2007 @ 8:30PM

--Isn't there an oath in there somewhere that's being neglected here?

No. See Wikipedia on the Hippocratic Oath: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath#Modern_relevance

Prongs 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 have nothing at all to do with the question. Unless somehow you mean the oath to not have sex with clients. The second prong is the only one that's possibly relevant: "To practice and prescribe to the best of my ability for the good of my patients, and to try to avoid harming them."

Sounds like it's pretty broad; it's not an oath to tell old patients how to avoid hypertension, it's an oath to practice medicine well. By your reasoning ANYTHING violates that oath.

Is this yet another pointless Brian White rhetorical question in search of relevance?