As a 68-year-old male former professor of medicine who exercises vigorously daily and is not
overweight, I was disgruntled to learn from my physician that I have hypertension and must
now swallow pills for the rest of my life. With that sentence, I join about half the persons
(both genders) of my age. Many in the other half have hypertension but do not know it or
have physicians less wise than mine. My physician argues that I may not have to die of heart
failure the way my father did. At least I do not have kidney disease