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Date Issued:
2016-04-15
Summary:
Annette Sheets presents her Capstone project, which focused on raising awareness of the prevalence of hypertension in women in the United States, the efficacy of home blood pressure monitoring, and reviewing evidence-based initiatives already in place to address the issue of hypertension. She addresses the unique risk factors faced by women and reviews literature related to blood pressure monitoring, then discusses her work determining whether home monitoring of blood pressure or intermittent blood pressure checks in a doctor's office are more likely to affect blood pressure levels after three months. She closes with recommendations on how to decrease the risks of hypertension.
Title: Lowering Blood Pressure among American Women.
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Name(s): Annette Sheets, Presenter
Susan Poole, Faculty Mentor
FSCJ, college
Type of Resource: moving image
Genre: Presentation
Issuance: single unit
Date Created: 2016-04-15
Date Issued: 2016-04-15
Publisher: Florida State College at Jacksonville
Place of Publication: Jacksonville, FL
Physical Form: moving image
Extent: 14 minutes
Language(s): English
eng
Summary: Annette Sheets presents her Capstone project, which focused on raising awareness of the prevalence of hypertension in women in the United States, the efficacy of home blood pressure monitoring, and reviewing evidence-based initiatives already in place to address the issue of hypertension. She addresses the unique risk factors faced by women and reviews literature related to blood pressure monitoring, then discusses her work determining whether home monitoring of blood pressure or intermittent blood pressure checks in a doctor's office are more likely to affect blood pressure levels after three months. She closes with recommendations on how to decrease the risks of hypertension.
Identifier: 20160415_SRC_03_Sheets_Lowering_Blood_Pressure (IID)
Note(s): Annette Sheets presents her Capstone project, which focused on raising awareness of the prevalence of hypertension in women in the United States, the efficacy of home blood pressure monitoring, and reviewing evidence-based initiatives already in place to address the issue of hypertension. She addresses the unique risk factors faced by women and reviews literature related to blood pressure monitoring, then discusses her work determining whether home monitoring of blood pressure or intermittent blood pressure checks in a doctor's office are more likely to affect blood pressure levels after three months. She closes with recommendations on how to decrease the risks of hypertension.
Subject(s): Blood pressure
Hypertension
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fscj/fd/20160415_SRC_03_Sheets_Lowering_Blood_Pressure
Use and Reproduction: free to use
Host Institution: FSCJ