High blood pressure, often referred to as \u201chypertension,\u201d\naffects approximately 75 million adults in the United States. It increases the\nrisk of other serious health conditions, such as stroke, heart attack, kidney\ndisease and chronic heart failure. Despite the fact that more than hundreds of\nthousands of people die each year from problems caused by hypertension, only\nabout 50% of people with high blood pressure have it under control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A home-based approach\nto controlling hypertension<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to new research from Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital, a\nnew home-based approach to managing high blood pressure may change the\nhealthcare game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the study, the researchers recruited 130 people who had\nhypertension that wasn\u2019t under control. They taught them all to use a\nBluetooth-enabled device that could measure their blood pressure in the comfort\nof their home. They were told to do it twice a day, in duplicate. In less than\ntwo months, 81% of the participants had their hypertension under control!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why the home-based\napproach works<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The program works for a few reasons. First, the readings\nfrom the device would transmit the measurements directly into the participants\u2019\nelectronic medical records. Second, all the participants had a patient\nnavigator. These patient navigators had been trained on the use of specially\ndesigned clinical algorithms, which help assess the person and confirm that\nthey\u2019re getting the right amount of medication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This approach could not only reduce the costs of controlling\nhigh blood pressure but also help prevent the risk of other\nhypertension-related health problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDevelopment of innovative solutions to manage hypertension\neffectively and efficiently, and thus reduce the cardiovascular risk burden in\nlarger populations, is critical,\u201d says Dr. Naomi Fisher, director of\nHypertension Services and the Hypertension Specialty Clinic at the Brigham.\n\u201cOrganizations can and should develop and adopt innovative technologies to\ncreate sustainable solutions for the control of hypertension.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" High blood pressure, often referred to as \u201chypertension,\u201d affects approximately 75 million adults in the United States. It increases the risk of other serious health conditions, such as stroke, heart attack, kidney disease and chronic heart failure. Despite the fact that more than hundreds of thousands of people die each year from problems caused by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[690],"tags":[785,786,719],"class_list":["post-13339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wellness","tag-high-blood-pressure","tag-hypertension","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}