High Blood Pressure Guidelines

Treat high blood pressure sooner: tougher, simpler JNC 7 guidelines.

Blood pressure measurement guidelines for physical therapists.

Vital sign measurement and assessment are important components of the review of systems in a physical therapy examination for individuals with and without documented cardiopulmonary disease. The measurement of blood pressure gives the therapist information regarding the patient's baseline cardiovascular status, response to exercise/activity, and guides exercise prescription. Accurate measuremen...

Blood pressure guidelines and screening techniques.

Recording and monitoring blood pressure should be a lifetime practice. Studies have shown that people with normal blood pressure readings between the ages of 55 and 65 still have an 80 to 90 percent risk of developing hypertension by the age of 80. The information in this course teaches the dental health professional to be aware of the causes of hypertension and how to determine and assess iden...

New guidelines on diet and blood pressure.

The publication of a new American Heart Association (AHA) scientific statement on dietary influences on blood pressure is very timely.1 “You are what you eat” may be a cliché, but the importance of diet in our lives cannot be underestimated, and hardly a week goes by without some new fad diet appearing on the scene. There is agreement that of all the modifiable environmental factors that influe...

Blood pressure measurement in children and adolescents: guidelines of high blood pressure recommendations and current clinical practice.

OBJECTIVE To determine, in a school-based sample of children and adolescents, aged from 7 to 17 years, of both gender, in public and private schools, the frequency of students already submitted to blood pressure measure. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out, sampling from a population pool of elementary and middle schools, randomly selected. The sample was calculated based on the e...