1/13 A practical tweetorial for clinicians, patients and carers
#hypertension #HTNevidence #MedEd 🩺👩⚕️
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Hypertension (high blood pressure) is a very common condition, and is associated with increased📈 risk for strokes, heart attacks and premature death 💀, so it's worth asking some 🤔👩🏾💻
#TIevidence #MedEd #prescribing
Screening for high blood pressure might not be that helpful 😯 and early 🕗 detection of mild hypertension may not significantly impact health‐related costs in the long term nor improve health outcomes: bit.ly/35P2mcz
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Lifestyle 🚴🏾🏃🏾♀️and blood pressure (antihypertensive) 💊 can help.
Evidence favours a low 🧂 diet to ↘️ blood pressure.
Try to reduce your intake of processed foods 🥫, which contain a lot of 🧂 bit.ly/2Wgrg1v
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Treating #hypertension generally ↘️ one's risks
The ⬆️ benefit for treatment appears to come in 👨🏽🧕🏻aged 60-80. but ↘️ targets aren’t likely necessary bit.ly/2YJWmQL and bit.ly/2WHzoY3
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Most evidence supports thiazides/thiazide-like diuretics as 1⃣st-line #hypertension therapy bit.ly/2WdUIoQ
but, the “best” antihypertensive 💊 is likely the one that a person feels good about taking 😀
#HTNEvidence #MedEd
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Our TI Letter bit.ly/3dwIEoO on managing hypertension concluded antihypertensive 💊 for adults (primary prevention) w/ mild hypertension have NOT been proven to reduce mortality or morbidity in RCTs
#prescribing #MedEd
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Much of the blood pressure ↘️ lowering effect of antihypertensive drugs occurs at the lower end of the approved dose ranges.
Maybe consider pill splitting (dividing 💊 into smaller doses)❓ Special report: bit.ly/2YS78Vr
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