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...link between PSA blood-test results and prostate cancer has become increasingly controversial. Faith in the PSA test was shaken when studies showed that many men whose test readings were in the normal range turned out to have prostate cancer. That faith was somewhat restored when further research suggested that the rate of increase in a man's PSA level, not the absolute level itself, determines the risk of death from the disease. Should there be new standards for interpreting PSA readings? Not necessarily. While tighter guidelines would almost certainly find more cancers, they would also prompt more unnecessary biopsies...
...point. That is the diastolic pressure, the second number. The force of both pressures is measured by how high a pulsing artery can push a column of mercury in a blood-pressure monitor. In general, 120 mm during a beat and 80 mm between beats are considered normal...
Whatever the causes of hypertension, doctors have been pretty clear about what its yard markers are. A reading of 120/80 or below is considered normal; 140/90 marks the onset of hypertension; 160/100 is Stage 2 hypertension; 220/120 is the onset of what is known as malignant hypertension, pressure so high that fluid is squeezed from vessels into the brain and blood leaks out of capillaries into the liquid that fills the eyeballs. "Malignant hypertension is a medical emergency," says cardiologist Richard Devereux of Cornell University Medical College...
...make this point as emphatically as possible, the NHLBI labels the borderline pressure range "prehypertension," a mildly alarming term that was chosen for precisely that reason. "We convened focus groups; presented them terms such as high normal, borderline and abnormal vascular response; and asked them which would get across the idea that they had to take action," says Bakris. "Ninety-eight percent said prehypertension would...
...toxic by-product of the manufacture of certain disinfectants and herbicides, and an ingredient in Agent Orange--that it was difficult to get an accurate measurement. "The needle was literally off the charts," Rudolfinerhaus director Dr. Michael Zimpfer told TIME, though doctors say his bodily functions are returning to normal...