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May 1, 2007The Consultant Pharmacist

SBP/DBP significantly declined from 150.5/95.5 mmHg at baseline to 133.8/83.3 mmHg on the second month and remained consistent throughout the 9-month study period.

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Why the study?

Does a community pharmacy-based hypertension disease-management program improve blood pressure and quality of life in Latino/Hispanic-American patients with uncontrolled hypertension?

Population

Latino/Hispanic-American patients with a long-term history of uncontrolled hypertension referred by primary…

Design

Cohort

Follow-up

9 months

Authors

LLLeanne Lai

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Overview

Supports pharmacy-based hypertension programs in Latino patients; hypothesis-generating pending randomized confirmation.

Structured PICO

Does a community pharmacy-based hypertension disease-management program improve blood pressure and quality of life in Latino/Hispanic-American patients with uncontrolled hypertension?

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Population
Latino/Hispanic-American patients with a long-term history of uncontrolled hypertension referred by primary care physicians
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Intervention
Nine-month community pharmacy-based hypertension disease-management program
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Outcome
Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) assessed via SF-12 questionnaire, systolic/diastolic blood pressure, medication compliance, and frequency of BP screeningssurrogate

A community pharmacy-based disease management program significantly improved blood pressure control and quality of life in a Latino/Hispanic-American population with uncontrolled hypertension.

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Leanne Lai (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0e93da7b06478e784c53eahttps://doi.org/10.4140/tcp.n.2007.411
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