In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away

Quite leisurely from the disaster …

—W.H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts

Icarus, according to the myth, escaped from imprisonment on the island of Crete by flying with wings his father formed from feathers and wax. Icarus’s father, Daedalus, warned him not to fly too close to the sun because the wax would melt. We all know the rest of the story: Icarus, feeling exulted as he was flying through the air, wanted more than low flight could provide and so flew higher, toward the sun, until his wings melted and he plummeted to the sea.

This essay will discuss 3 unintended consequences of lowering the blood pressure threshold for hypertension as recommended in the new hypertension guidelines.¹ Under the new guidelines, an additional 31 million people in the United States will be diagnosed with hypertension. The main impetus for the dramatic change in blood pressure target was data from the SPRINT study (Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial), a randomized study of 9361 persons who met strictly defined entry criteria that included being at least 50 years old and …

例如，在布鲁格赫尔的《伊卡洛斯》中：一切如何消逝

灾难过得很悠闲……

— WH Auden，法国美术学院

根据神话，伊卡洛斯逃脱了在克里特岛的监禁，他乘着由羽毛和蜡形成的父亲的翅膀飞翔。伊卡洛斯的父亲戴达鲁斯（Daedalus）警告他，不要飞得太近，因为蜡会融化。我们都知道故事的其余部分：伊卡洛斯（Icarus）在空中飞行时感到异常狂喜，他希望获得比低空飞行所能提供的更多的东西，然后飞向更高的位置，朝着太阳，直到他的翅膀融化并坠入大海。

本文将讨论新的高血压指南中所建议的降低高血压血压阈值的3种意想不到的后果。¹根据新指南，美国将再有3100万人被诊断患有高血压。血压目标急剧变化的主要动力是来自SPRINT研究（收缩压干预试验）的数据，该研究是对9361人的严格研究，这些人符合严格定义的入院标准，包括至少50岁和……