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Radio 4,21 Aug 2012,28 mins

Over-diagnosis: High Blood Pressure

Inside Health

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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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