A good argument can be made that we could save more lives and prevent more morbidity by aggressively diagnosing, treating and controlling hypertension than with any other condition given the knowledge and tools at our disposal at this time. Hypertension is not a sexy to address as things like breast cancer, colon cancer or diabetes, but ...
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What are the common causes of preventable death in the US?
Most people can guess smoking is #1. But can you guess #2 Think a minute and look at the rest of this post. Comment if you are surprised. This is from The estimated number of deaths related to the risk factors annually was: 467,000 for smoking 395,000 for high blood pressure 216,000 for overweight and obesity 191,000 for inadequate physical activity and inactivity 190,000 ...
Salt reduction makes the news
Now evidence shows that modest salt intake reduction may lead to huge public health benefits and healthcare cost savings. Strokes and kidney failure, common complications of high blood pressure, are both devastating to individuals and their families, as well as tremendously expensive. Since most of the salt in our diet is in prepared or packaged ...