Simple Steps Lead to Better Blood Pressure Control

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The findings were to be presented Friday at the American Heart Association's annual Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke, in Baltimore.

Other medical centers wanting to improve their patients' blood pressure control don't need to follow the Tennessee system's approach step by step, Roumie said.

"We focused on educational activities specific for our site," she said. "This does have the potential to spread to other institutions, but each institution needs to look at the barriers in its own health system and design interventions to address those areas."

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Learn more about high blood pressure and controlling it from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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