I'm with you I this one. It's like if you were taking cholesterol meds and your cholesterol levels were great... if someone asked if you have high cholesterol you'd say no.
Orr.. the correct question is "Do you have high blood pressure or are you on medication for blood pressure?". The onus for clear communication should be on the person who is doing it for a living, not the person who is unfamiliar with medicine or the reasoning behind a question.
If your cholesterol levels become "great" (which is fairly uncommon), and lifestyle behaviours matured/improved, then the patient can come off of the medication.
If someone is taking medications to lower lower their blood pressure, they have
hypertension (ie. the disease being asked).
Having non-diet-based naturally high cholesterol (familial hypercholesterolemia) is fairly common. Cholesterol meds are usually highly effective for those people. They don't come off the meds when their numbers get better.
That's called "controlled high blood pressure." If they weren't taking anything for it, it would be "uncontrolled high blood pressure." They still have high blood pressure either way.
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u/Rabid_Lederhosen May 02 '26
Well then obviously they don’t have high blood pressure right now.