[vjk800]

> Most people with high blood pressure have it because of metabolic disease/chronic stress/lifestyle, and it can be managed with changes to diet exercise and meds.

Do we know this though? If, as the article claims, the lesions were previously hard to detect, I would guess that most people with them never get diagnosed. I have high blood pressure and I've never been examined for those lesions.

[themantalope]

Yeah there are other ways to tell if someone has aldosterone driven hypertension through blood work and urine tests. These other tests are to determine if surgery could fix the problem (tumor or unilateral vs bilateral abnormal aldosterone production).

Edited for clarity