Lifestyle interventions
1. Offer lifestyle advice to people with suspected or diagnosed hypertension, and continue to offer it periodically.
2. Ask about people’s diet and exercise patterns because a healthy diet and regular exercise can reduce blood pressure. Offer appropriate guidance and written or audiovisual materials to promote lifestyle changes.
3.Ask about people’s alcohol consumption and encourage a reduced intake if they drink excessively, because this can reduce blood pressure and has broader health benefits.
4. Discourage excessive consumption of coffee and other caffeine-rich products. ]
5. Encourage people to keep their dietary sodium intake low, either by reducing or substituting sodium salt, as this can reduce blood pressure[2]. ]
6. Do not offer calcium, magnesium or potassium supplements as a method for reducing blood pressure.
7. Offer advice and help to smokers to stop smoking.
8. Inform people about local initiatives by, for example, healthcare teams or patient organisations that provide support and promote healthy lifestyle change, especially those that include group work for motivating lifestyle change.
Any other information in this regards, I shall be more then happy to answer at the earliest.
Dr. Ashok Kapoor,MBBS, MD(Int. Medicine,DM(Cardio), F.CARD,MCCP
Physician &Cardiologist
Director
Getwell Medical Center/Curewell Diagnostic Centre
P.O.Box-31690
2nd Floor, Getwell Building, Bank Street Bur Dubai
Dubai. UAE
04 359 5935. 00971504505865 Mobile
E mail: ashukap@emirates.net.ae
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