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How to help patients make heart health changes: Q&A with Dr. Rakotz
Dietary and lifestyle changes are difficult to make. Once habits are formed, the effort that is required to change is often overwhelming for both patients and physicians. This week, Michael Rakotz, MD, director of chronic disease prevention with the AMA’s Improving Health Outcomes initiative, provides guidance from his own experience as a primary care physician on approaching heart healthy changes with patients.
AMA Wire®: In our Twitter poll, the public thought 2:1 that exercise would benefit their heart health more than dietary changes. Why is that?
Dr. Rakotz: It’s hard to know for sure why people voted this w...
Source: AMA Wire - September 29, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: amamod Source Type: news
Is 120 mm Hg the new BP target? What headlines aren’t telling you
The results of the SPRINT trial are in, and you’ve probably heard that making 120 mm Hg the new blood pressure target helped lower mortality rates. Yet the study outcomes apply only to a specific subset of patients with hypertension. See whether or not your patients may fit into this category.
In the much-anticipated results of the SPRINT trial, the relative risk of death from cardiovascular causes was 43 percent lower for patients receiving more intensive treatment for a 120 mm Hg target versus those who received standard treatment for a 140 mm Hg target.
While these results were unexpected and are noteworthy, wh...
Source: AMA Wire - November 11, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: amamod Source Type: news
How to prevent diabetes from sneaking up on your patients
An AMA Viewpoints post by AMA Board Chair Stephen R. Permut, MD
A major health threat has been silently taking hold of 86 million Americans, with 90 percent of them unaware of it. A new public health campaign is about to change that—and you’re the key to helping these patients take their health back.
A campaign to prevent type 2 diabetes
If you’re not already talking to your patients about prediabetes and the risks associated with it, it’s time to start. People with prediabetes—more than 1 in 3 adults—are at higher risk of developing serious health problems such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and s...
Source: AMA Wire - January 21, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Amy Farouk Source Type: news
New journal JAMA Cardiology to debut in 2016
As cardiovascular disease remains the No. 1 cause of death and disability worldwide, a new medical journal will premiere early next year to serve the global cardiology community. JAMA Cardiology—to be led by an internationally renowned cardiologist—will premiere as the 12th journal in the JAMA Network, which includes JAMA and 10 other specialty journals.
“The burden of hypertension, ischemic heart disease, heart failure, stroke, valvular heart disease and atrial fibrillation is reaching epidemic proportions worldwide,” writes Howard Bauchner, MD, editor in chief of The JAMA Network, and colleagues in a JAMA edito...
Source: AMA Wire - October 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Amy Farouk Source Type: news
How a public health solution is reducing hypertension disparities
Addressing health care disparities can help practices improve the health of patients in vulnerable at-risk populations. Learn how eight family medicine practices boosted hypertension control rates for diverse patients by more than 3 percentage points in just three months.
A targeted pilot
As part of the Million Hearts initiative, the Summit County Public Health department (SCPH) and several partners in Ohio launched a pilot project with several family medicine practices to help reduce hypertension rates among black men.
In Ohio, 38.5 percent of black patients have a diagnosis of hypertension, compared to 33.7 percent...
Source: AMA Wire - February 16, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Lyndra Vassar Source Type: news
What FDA ’s new sodium guidelines could look like in practice
With nine out of 10 U.S. adults and children consuming too much sodium, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released draft proposed voluntary guidelines to encourage companies to significantly reduce sodium in processed and restaurant foods by 2020. Some of the recommended changes may be eye-opening for patients who don ’t closely monitor their sodium intake. The need to decrease sodium consumption
High sodium intake has a direct correlation to high blood pressure, which leads to heart disease and stroke —the most common causes of death in the U.S., contributing to more than 1,000 deaths per day. “...
Source: AMA Wire - June 8, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
