Key result
Healthcare assistants support hypertension care by identifying cases, promoting healthy habits, and monitoring side effects.
Why the study?
Hypertension causes around 75000 deaths annually in the UK and substantially raises the risk of stroke, heart attacks, kidney disease, and vascular dementia.
Healthcare assistants play a crucial role in identifying hypertension, promoting healthy habits, and monitoring medication side effects to ensure effective treatment.
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Supports healthcare assistant roles in hypertension care; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective trials before practice change.
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, has been described as the ‘silent killer’. Around 75000 people in the UK die each year as a result of hypertension and it causes more than half of all strokes and heart attacks. Hypertension increases the risk of heart disease, kidney disease and vascular dementia. This article outlines how the healthcare assistant can help to identify people with hypertension and promote healthy habits that can treat the condition. It explores the healthcare assistant's role in identifying the adverse effects of medication and working with the patient and healthcare team to ensure that hypertension is treated effectively.
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Linda Nazarko (2025) conducted a review in Hypertension. Healthcare assistant involvement was evaluated. Healthcare assistants play a crucial role in identifying hypertension, promoting healthy habits, and monitoring medication adverse effects to ensure effective treatment.
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