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How to Measure Your Blood Pressure

Mark Gelfer et al., “III. Home BP Measurement,” Hypertension Canada, https://guidelines.hypertension.ca/diagnosis-assessment/home-measurement/

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About Dr.Z

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One Heart, Five Habits

Institute of Medicine. 2010. A Population-Based Policy and Systems Change Approach to Prevent and Control Hypertension. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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Lawrence J. Appel, “exercise in the Treatment and Prevention of Hypertension,” upToDate, last updated January 15, 2018, https://www.uptodate.com/contents/exercise-in-the-treatment- and-prevention-of-hypertension Accessed October 16, 2018

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Frank W. Booth, Christian K. Roberts, and Matthew J. Laye, “Lack of exercise Is a Major Cause of Chronic Diseases,” Comprehensive Physiology 2, no. 2 (2012): 1143–211, https://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fcphy.c110025

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Lawrence Appel et al., “Dietary Approaches to Prevent and Treat Hypertension: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association,” Hypertension 47, no. 2 (2006): 296–308, https://doi.org/10.1161/01.HYP.0000202568.01167.B6

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Tips

Institute of Medicine, A Population-Based Policy and Systems Change Approach to Prevent and Control Hypertension (Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2010), https://doi.org/10.17226/12819

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S. Lewington et al., “Age-Specific Relevance of usual Blood Pressure to Vascular Mortality: A Meta-analysis of Individual Data for One Million Adults in 61 Prospective Studies,” Lancet 360, no. 9349 (2002): 1903–13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11911-8

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Lisa J. Harnack et al., “Sources of Sodium in uS Adults from 3 Geographic Regions,” Circulation 135, no. 19 (2017): 1775–83,https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCuLATIONAHA.116.024446

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Dagfinn Aune et al., “Fruit and Vegetable Intake and theRisk of Cardiovascular Disease, Total Cancer and All-Cause Mortality—A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-analysis of Prospective Studies,” International Journal of Epidemiology 46, no. 3 (2017): 1029–56, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyw319

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