can't help wondering if all this running around lowering peoples bp's and lipid levels, is just replacing one cause of death with another.
T'was always thus.
Generations ago, people died from TB, pneumonia, and infection, then antibiotics improved longevity so that many died from heart attacks in their late fifties or sixties, then bypasses and lipitor kept them going until the cancers kicked-in in their seventies.
I suspect when a cure is found for prostate cancer then we will have wards full of Alzheimers patients in their late eighties. There is no easy answer to this one.