The Brief Hypertension Action Tool is intended to be used by a health care professional to inform and engage a patient with hypertension to become more active in their care. The flexible tool involves three (3) actions that can be done in one session or in separate sessions.
2008
Endorsed Practice Resource
Home measurement of blood pressure. A step-by-step educational video that provides visual instruction and narration on everything you need to know about measuring your blood pressure at home. Blood Pressure Canada.
2009
Endorsed Practice Resource,
Patient Information
Hypertension,
Patient Education
The brochure defines high blood pressure and tells how blood pressure is measured, and gives advice for home blood pressure monitoring and following a healthy diet.
2008
Endorsed Practice Resource,
Patient Information
Hypertension,
Patient Education
Multiple stakeholder organizations call on Canadian health care professionals to redouble efforts to help patients achieve treatment targets (blood pressure less than 130 mmHg systolic and less than 80 mmHg diastolic) in people with diabetes.
2009
This guide to hypertension may include links to important websites, articles, reports and other resources. For more detailed information, please ask us.
2010
Dietary Sodium Given that the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies has established a daily Adequate Intake (AI) for sodium of 1200 mg and a daily Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) of 2300 mg for healthy adults, and these values have been adopted by the Canadian and American governments for setting public
2007
The CFPC endorses the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care's Recommendations on Screening for High Blood Pressure in Canadian Adults.
2012
Endorsed Practice Resource
Sodium tools A patient and health education brochure with information about lowering sodium and reducing blood pressure.
2009
Endorsed Document,
Patient Information
Hypertension,
Patient Education