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This foreword highlights current trends in hypertension care, emphasizing accurate measurement, patient education, holistic risk factor control, and the need for public education funding.
This foreword highlights the importance of accurate blood pressure measurement, patient education, holistic risk factor control, and public funding for hypertension prevention.
This article discusses issues and trends in care of the hypertensive client that pertain to practice, education, research, and health policy. Clinical practice issues center around obtaining accurate blood pressure measurements and educating patients about health promotion interventions and use of medications. These topics are important in the education of the beginning nurse student as well. Researchers have studied risk factors, incidence, and prevalence in global populations; use of pharmacologic agents; and investigative methods employing technology. Researchers are beginning to explore more holistic approaches to controlling risk factors before hypertension occurs. Funding for public education regarding prevention and control of hypertension is a number one health policy issue.
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Jones et al. (2001) conducted an editorial in Hypertension. This foreword highlights current trends in hypertension care, emphasizing accurate measurement, patient education, holistic risk factor control, and the need for public education funding.
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