My lifestyle habits should make me a prime candidate for high BP, so it makes me wonder what else might be going on.
Medicine's like economics.
In economics, there's billions and billions of factors, known and unknown, that affect something, but because that's too many things to consider, economists concentrate on only five or six known factors, to come up to the conclusions they usually do.
And yes, that's reasonably accurate, relying on that puny number for factors.
But it doesn't take much--an alteration of only one of billions and billions of factors, known and unknown--to upset the whole applecart; the "exceptions" to the rule.
Medicine, same thing. If one's a chain-smoker of cigarettes, a big guzzler of booze, overweight, sedentary, an epicture of fine foods, the
known and considered factors dictate that one's going to get high-blood-pressured.
Which is generally, usually, most of the time, true; it happens.
But in rare instances, it doesn't seem to happen.
That's because there's some other factor involved, that's either not considered important, or not seen.
