Nurses and nurse midwives have historically considered patient education one of their most important responsibilities. Increasingly, however, appropriate and comprehensive patient education has ...

Eating More Fruits and Vegetables to Reduce Dietary Acid Lowers Blood Pressure and Improves Kidney and Heart Health in Patients With Hypertension Aug. 6, 2024 — Doctors recommend making fruits ...

Patients being seen by physicians in solo or small group practices may not be exposed to as much hypertension education as our patients. A study reported many years ago [22] indicated that ...

Calcium channel blockers (CCB) are a common class of medication used to treat high blood pressure and heart arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats ... in combination forms with a statin or another blood ...

“Twenty-five years ago, I received very little education along ... These patients exhibited a 30 percent reduction in cardiac death, stroke and nonfatal myocardial infarction. Benefits of changing a ...

A survey of cardiologists has found that patient lifestyle is the biggest challenge when treating patients seeking cardiology care.

Methods: A search was made of the Cochrane Airways Group trial registers, Medline, reference lists, and abstracts of medical conferences for controlled trials of self-management education in patients ...

This research offers hope that personalized blood pressure treatment based on a patient's genetic profile could be key to helping people with uncontrolled hypertension nationwide. Professor ...

The school is a member of the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium. “What they do as far as health behaviors is try to inoculate the students into regularly thinking about ...

Patient and staff education delivered by trained educators significantly reduced falls and injurious falls in an older rehabilitation population. The purpose of the study was to explore the educators’ ...