Do you have mild hypertension? If you don't know get measuring. Photo by Mufid Majnun on Unsplash Defining mild-to-moderate hypertension as a disease when it is largely asymptomatic and is really only a risk factor for diseases as a result of end-organ damage caused by hypertension is a triumph of preventive medicine. In medicine we define a disease as a clinicopathological correlate, i.e. there are clinical findings associated with a specific pathology that is unique and separates the specific disease from other disorders, which may mimic it. When mild-to-moderate hypertension develops there are usually no specific symptoms and when diagnosed early there is little of no end-organ signs of damage. In other words, hypertension is part of the prodrome for diseases that manifest many years later. However, the medical profession treats hypertension as a disease in itself. Why? I think it is because the epidemiological evidence showing hypertension is associated with poor o...