“Epidemic” of hypertension. Part 1. Hypertension – a consequence of the crisis of medicine ???
We, ordinary people, unconsciously hope that modern medicine will come up with something and somehow cope with a certain disease. Medicine has indeed coped well with some diseases, but with others, well, it cannot. Arterial hypertension (hereinafter we will simply call it “hypertension”) is currently a big problem for medicine. Medicine is developing, making great strides, but hypertension is only increasing among the population and “getting younger” (it began to affect those under 40). Statistics say that medicine controls diseases by only 20%, and the rest (80%) is a way of life. And yet, I believe that medicine has actually created a crisis with its own hands regarding hypertension: it has focused on pills: supposedly, they can save from the disease. The paradigm of “pills are the main way to fight diseases” involuntarily gives rise to infantilism in patients, a refusal to take responsibility for their own health.