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3 steps for acting rapidly to control high blood pressure

Recently, AMA Wire® has focused coverage on how to measure blood pressure accurately, the first action to appropriately managing high blood pressure. Once a patient’s hypertension is confirmed, physicians and their practice staff should act rapidly to help bring that blood pressure under control.

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What doctors are saying about measuring blood pressure accurately

When Wisconsin family medicine physician Kim Hardy, MD, saw this blood pressure chart the AMA posted on Twitter, she knew it was something that could help her practice obtain more accurate blood pressure measurements.

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How your EHR can help get hypertension under control: Study

Applying certain computer-based algorithms to an electronic health record (EHR) system could help identify patients with undiagnosed hypertension, according to a new study in the July/August issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.

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How a doctor quickly improved patients' blood pressure readings

Seven seemingly minor factors can artificially inflate patients’ blood pressure measurements. Prevent false readings by monitoring these factors. See how quickly blood pressure readings improve.

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How doctors are anticipating health care trends before they happen

As health care continues to evolve at a rapid pace, physicians are anticipating the major issues coming in the future and working to shape them through three key initiatives.

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United voice will protect physician-patient relationship: AMA CEO

Unifying the physician community and speaking with one voice will ensure the AMA’s “True North”—the physician-patient relationship—remains strong in the face of a semi-chaotic, rapidly changing health care environment, AMA Executive Vice President and CEO James L. Madara, MD said in his address at the 2014 AMA Annual Meeting. 

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Structured blood pressure management has greater impact: study

Algorithm-based blood pressure interventions, such as a recent primary care hypertension treatment program in Australia, may be effective in helping patients adhere to hypertension treatment, according to a recent study in the Journal of Hypertension.

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Why you should be a member of the AMA

I’ve spent much of the past year talking with physicians around the country about the issues that matter most to them and listening to the challenges they face every day.

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Keep a Million Hearts healthy with hypertension resources

Help more Americans get their blood pressure under control with the Million Hearts initiative, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services program that aims to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes over five years. 

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