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Recent American Heart Association Scientific Statements emphasize heart failure prevention through risk reduction and hypertension management using home blood pressure monitoring.
This article summarizes two AHA scientific statements on heart failure prevention and hypertension management through home blood pressure monitoring.
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Clinicians may integrate home BP monitoring into hypertension care to prevent HF; leaves open prospective outcome trials in diverse populations.
This article provides an overview of the latest in the standard of care and approaches for heart failure treatment. It presents two new American Heart Association Scientific Statements related to heart failure risk. The first addresses the prevention of heart failure with an emphasis on risk reduction. The second statement focuses on efforts to reduce hypertension, a primary risk factor for heart failure, through a self-care regimen that features home blood pressure monitoring. Implications for home care practice are presented.
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Jessica Shank Coviello (2009) conducted a review in Heart failure. Heart failure treatment and prevention strategies was evaluated. Recent American Heart Association Scientific Statements emphasize heart failure prevention through risk reduction and hypertension management using home blood pressure monitoring.
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