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Care topics 1
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This page is the starting point for the atlas's prevention material. For now it is built around blood pressure, because the first evidence recorded here is about medicines that lower blood pressure...
Conditions 2
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Blood pressure that stays higher than it should over time.
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A sudden loss of brain function. It happens when part of the brain does not get enough blood or when there is bleeding inside the skull.
Interventions 7
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Taking repeated blood pressure readings while a person goes about a normal waking day, to check whether a high reading in the clinic is confirmed.
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Medicines that lower blood pressure, started and adjusted for adults whose high blood pressure is confirmed.
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Using medicines and lifestyle changes to bring blood pressure below a chosen number and keep it there.
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Measuring your own blood pressure with a device, at home or somewhere else outside the clinic.
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Health professionals who are not doctors, such as pharmacists and nurses, providing blood pressure medicine, as long as they have proper training and prescribing authority, follow set management...
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A treatment plan that adjusts blood-pressure medicines until the top number is under 120, rather than the more usual under 140.
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Swapping ordinary table salt for a salt that has part of its sodium replaced with potassium. The aim is lower blood pressure and, over years, fewer strokes. In SSaSS, a trial in rural China among...
Products 1
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An electronic blood pressure monitor, the Omron HEM-907. The US Food and Drug Administration cleared it in 2000. The FDA record names Omron Healthcare, Inc. only as the applicant for that clearance...
Technologies 1
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A blood pressure device with a cuff for the upper arm that works out the reading itself from signals in the cuff.