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EPISODE · Aug 21, 2012 · 27 MIN

Over-diagnosis: High Blood Pressure

from Inside Health · host BBC Radio 4

Dr Mark Porter asks whether doctors can try too hard in the early detection of disease and investigates the overdiagnosis of hypertension. This week he discovers that as many as 3 million people who have been told they have high blood pressure may not actually have it - could you be one of them?

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