What you'll learn

  • Guides you to incorporating basic lifestyle changes into your daily routine, including eating smart, easing stress, improving sleep and introducing moderate exercise

  • Explains “white coat” and masked hypertension phenomena

  • Offers an impartial, frank assessment of today’s expanded array of medications to help you make the safest and smartest choices to meet your goals

Course description

Current blood pressure guidelines have made the importance of lower numbers abundantly clear. Today, nearly half of American adults are considered to have high blood pressure, with double the risk of heart attacks and strokes as well as increased risk of kidney failure, loss of eyesight, and even Alzheimer’s. Learn in this interactive online course how you can effectively and successfully lower your blood pressure. You’ll discover the strategies, simple lifestyle changes, and/or medications that can make a truly significant and measurable difference in your blood pressure.

 

Course Outline

Introduction

Welcome and course instructions

Hypertension 101

  • Time to take charge
  • Blood pressure basics
  • Types of high blood pressure
  • Risk factors for hypertension
  • How hypertension harms health
  • Diagnosing hypertension

Bonus Interview

With hypertension expert Dr. Randall M. Zusman

Lifestyle changes

  • The first step in lowering blood pressure
  • Step 1. Change your diet
  • Step 2. Get active
  • Step 3. Attain a healthy weight
  • Step 4. Reduce stress
  • Step 5. Stop smoking
  • Step 6. Reduce your salt
  • Test your hypertension knowledge

Medications for hypertension

Working closely with your doctor

Closing

Positive steps to make real change

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