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Wall Street Journal Best Seller Dr. M's Seven-X Plan for Digestive Health
While hypertension is a common problem with a variety of remedies. Despite that, blood pressure is effectively controlled only in a minority of patients. Healthy life style measures are an important part of treatment in addition to medications and these have to be tailored to each individual. Motivational strategies and complex interventions hold promise.
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Bosworth and colleagues studied the effect of self-management interventions on blood pressure control in hypertensive patients over a two year period. The subjects were randomized to receive usual care, a behavioral intervention (bimonthly tailored, nurse-administered telephone intervention targeting hypertension-related behaviors), home BP monitoring 3 times weekly, or the behavioral intervention plus home BP monitoring.
Results of Bosworth study
The investigators found that a regimen of combined home blood pressure monitoring and tailored behavioral telephone intervention improved control of systolic as well as diastolic pressure at 24 months as compared to usual care.
The Reed study
Reed and colleagues studied the economic impact of various strategies of multi-component interventions. They concluded interventions like telephonic behavioral lifestyle measures are cost-additive to the health-care system in the short term and that patients' time costs are nontrivial.
Wall Street Journal Best Seller Dr. M's Seven-X Plan for Digestive Health
