Topic in Focus: Hypertension Control

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Blood pressure: What to do when patients aren’t measuring up

Sometimes patients have trouble correctly measuring their blood pressure, or fail to do it when they should. Your practice can help them overcome these common challenges.

Prevention & Wellness
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8 steps to ensure your patients get their BP right

Patients must be taught how to measure and document their BP so physicians can manage it appropriately. This guide will help your team with that training.

Prevention & Wellness
Gena Allenby, Elizabeth Philippe, MD, and Carine Astree of Community Health of South Florida Inc.
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Practice sees firsthand how self-measured BP makes a difference

Out-of-office BP readings are critical to overcoming clinical inertia and white-coat hypertension. Here is how a South Florida practice got their patients involved.

Prevention & Wellness
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To boost physical activity in patients, make a game of it

Patients who track their steps and get daily encouragement and feedback take nearly 1,000 more steps a day. All those steps can add up to better health outcomes.

Prevention & Wellness
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Why nutrition matters to your patients with hypertension

How much and how quickly can diet really help? And what kind is best for patients to pursue as they try to reduce their blood pressure with lifestyle changes alone?

Prevention & Wellness
Lindsay Martin-Engel, MD, MPH, and Ashley Meusa, DPM
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Lifestyle change at heart of Dallas practice’s BP-control efforts

Patients with hypertension take monthly classes on lifestyle as one part of this clinic’s efforts to reduce blood pressure.

Prevention & Wellness
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AMA offers 6 tips to improve heart health, prevent heart attack

AMA is offering tips to help reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in the millions of Americans currently living with high blood pressure.

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These med students learn to motivate lifestyle changes

Too many physicians are ill-equipped to help patients to do the hard work of changing harmful health behaviors. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is working to change that.

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These factors interfere with physicians’ IT adoption

Physicians are eager for digital health solutions that give them back more face-to-face time with patients.

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