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Managing Hypertension With Lifestyle Modifications, Ladonna D. Willis
Managing Hypertension With Lifestyle Modifications, Ladonna D. Willis
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Cardiovascular disease has taken the lives of millions of Americans, specifically, African Americans who do not have access to health care, which leads to morbidity and increased mortality. This benchmark project proposes to provide cardiovascular educational packets to patients who are admitted to the hospital and have been diagnosed with hypertension.
Home Blood Pressure Monitoring, Bethany N. Hughes
Home Blood Pressure Monitoring, Bethany N. Hughes
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Hypertension is prevalent worldwide and is responsible for nine million deaths annually. Despite its prevalence, a majority of patients go unmanaged or undiagnosed (Kitt et al., 2019). Health complications of hypertension can be life-altering and life-threatening; therefore, if changes are not made to improve community hypertension control rates, worsened population health and financial burden on health systems may persist. Would you believe that an effective tool exists and has been endorsed worldwide to combat hypertension, yet it is not used consistently in practice? Furthermore, can you imagine this specific tool is easy to operate, cheap, and recruits patient involvement in …
Non-Physician Led Hypertension Management, Poupak Moshayedi
Non-Physician Led Hypertension Management, Poupak Moshayedi
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The importance of controlling and better management of hypertension cannot be overemphasized, and the need for task sharing and multidisciplinary approach has never been more significant than in chronic conditions like hypertension. With many complications that it causes and with the many classes of drugs that we have in controlling blood pressure, having only 24 percent of people being controlled shows a break in knowledge and patient care. The gap can be filled with nurse involvement and taking more ownership and responsibility in tackling high numbers with interventions that are proven to work. Getting patients involved and following up with …
Prevent The Preventable: Children With Hypertension Due To High-Sodium Diets., Shana M. Cobb
Prevent The Preventable: Children With Hypertension Due To High-Sodium Diets., Shana M. Cobb
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Heart disease in the United States is the number one cause of death and costs $317 billion annually (Centers for Disease Control, [CDCa], 2018). Heart disease is usually considered an adult disease, but today we are finding that more children are developing symptoms of high blood pressure and sodium consumption is the link (Webb, 2017). Health care spending for hypertension is at an all-time high and is expected to triple over the next 20 years (Bussenius, Zeck, Williams, & Haynes-Ferere, 2018). The American Heart Association (AHA) states if sodium consumption was decreased to around 1,500 milligrams (mg) a day, blood …