Right Care Initiative has had dozens of meetings about better controlling blood pressure. Please see below for resources to help patients achieve excellent blood pressure control.
Blood pressure management is critical for patients to improve their health outcomes. Thanks to innovations in modern medicine and knowledge of the power of specific lifestyle adjustments, we now have the capacity to prevent most heart attacks and strokes. Empowering patients to know their critical biometric numbers for blood pressure (ideally 120/80 or less), cholesterol (LDL less than 100), and blood sugar (A1c less than 8) is now possible with at home monitoring innovations in the last few years. Through optimizing lifestyle and medication management, heart attacks and strokes are now preventable.
Click here to find our Right Care Initiative Know Your Numbers Pledge Card, a practical checklist to optimize your health to prevent heart attacks and strokes, and extend your health span. Please see further practical resources and videos below.
Below are the Blood Pressure Categories according to American Heart Association:
Here is an important article on Coronary Artery Calcium score for the Personalization of Antihypertensive Therapy that includes the following graphic regarding event rates for those with and without coronary artery calcium according to their blood pressure levels:
Source: Parcha V, Malla G, Kalra R, Li P, Pandey A, Nasir K, Arora G, Arora P. Coronary Artery Calcium Score for Personalization of Antihypertensive Therapy: A Pooled Cohort Analysis. Hypertension. 2021 Apr;77(4):1106-1118. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120.16689. Epub 2021 Mar 1. PMID: 33641360; PMCID: PMC7946744.
Please see blood pressure tips for patients:
- Consumer Reports – Why the Best Place to Check Blood Pressure May Be at Home
- Million Hearts Hypertension Control Change Package
- Videos from the US Million Hearts Program (CDC & CMS)
- How to measure your blood pressure at home graphic
- Release the Pressure Home Monitoring Instructional Video
- Why measure your blood pressure at home? See this Go Red for Women Video: “Just a Little Heart Attack”
- US Blood Pressure Validated Device Listing by Million Hearts (CDC & CMS)
- Right Care Initiative High Blood Pressure Lifestyle Recommendations
- American Heart Association High Blood Pressure Resources
- Million Hearts (CDC & CMS)Fact Sheets