Originally Posted by
donheff
Most doctors are not experts in this stuff -- they simply accept the general guidelines that are published. I followed a number of doctors who study lipids and are experts and followed their advice.
My first experience with the "routine" was 14yrs ago when a resident doctor fresh out of school insisted (and I REsisted) I take BP meds when they were not needed. This now obsolete term of borderline is now "prehypertensive" or "prediabetic". The med care community is now an industry that feeds the pharmaceutical monster.
Congrats on the weight loss!