Blood pressure monitor
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6 MIN READ

AMA, AHA developing list of validated BP monitors

Automated home BP devices can help boost hypertension control, but physicians lack access to proper clinical validation information for these devices.

Hypertension
AMA Executive Vice President and CEO James L. Madara, MD
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3 MIN READ

Time to flip construct and put patients, doctors first: AMA CEO

James L. Madara, MD, tells delegates how the AMA’s strategy is built around the changing needs of patients and incorporates physician perspective into new technology.

Leadership
Health coach Dale Mangum with patient Lisa Porter and family physician Sherri James-Surger, MD.
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4 MIN READ

Improve BP control with a little help from your health coach

About 44 percent of this clinic’s patients are Hispanic. A health coach helped implement a self-measured BP program, and here's how it's working.

Hypertension
A female nurse administers a blood pressure test to an African-American man.
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4 MIN READ

Big players in health care work to tackle high BP in black men

For treating hypertension in African-American men, setting priorities is top agenda after a recent meeting between the AMA, American Heart Association and the Association of Black Cardiologists.

Hypertension
Barber Eric Muhammad places a cuff on Mark Sims to measure his blood pressure at barber shop.
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4 MIN READ

Barbershops lend a hand to trim high BP among black men

To address uncontrolled hypertension in African-American men, barbers were trained to measure blood pressure and encourage follow-up. Here is how it worked. 

Hypertension
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3 MIN READ

AMA encourages more patients to know numbers on World Hypertension Day

On World Hypertension Day, AMA is urging more Americans to monitor their blood pressure levels and take quick action to get it under control.

Press Releases
Sugary soda being poured from can into a glass.
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4 MIN READ

Pennsylvania’s highest court to determine sugary-drink tax’s fate

The AMA says the tax helps lower obesity rates and that ruling against it could also jeopardize nontax initiatives to improve the public’s health.

Public Health
An African-American couple checking each other's blood pressure.
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4 MIN READ

Essential steps to help patients of color control BP

Address these four barriers to help minority patients with hypertension lower their blood pressure, says cardiologist and AMA member Keith C. Ferdinand, MD.

Hypertension
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7 MIN READ

Working to eliminate health disparities in cardiac care

AMA member Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, moves medicine by targeting the health disparities in cardiac care, 1-on-1 with patients and through research and education.

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Leadership
Members Move Medicine