High Blood Pressure Monitoring and Education

     Did you know that high blood pressure affects nearly 50 million people in the United States?  It is also one of the major risk factors for the development of heart disease (along with cigarette smoking and high cholesterol).  High blood pressure is defined as a blood pressure greater than 140 over 90 (140 / 90).  Prevention of high blood pressure is key!  This can be done through a variety of lifestyle modifications.  The pharmacists at Rice Drugs are available to educate you on how to decrease your risk for high blood pressure.  Some methods to decrease risk of high blood pressure include the following:
  • Lose weight, if overweight
  • Reduce salt intake
  • Stop smoking
  • Limit alcohol intake to 1 ounce per day
  • Increase aerobic exercise
  • Reduce saturated fat and cholesterol in your diet
     If you are one of the 50 million Americans with high blood pressure, proper treatment and monitoring is a goal for the trained pharmacists at Rice Drugs.  Our pharmacists know that high blood pressure left untreated or improperly monitored puts patients at great risk for developing a heart attack or stroke as well as heart and kidney failure at an early age.  Effective control of blood pressure will prevent further complications and will prolong the lives of many patients.

     One aspect of proper control is blood pressure monitoring.  Rice Drugs is proud to offer a new and innovative means for blood pressure monitoring:  The DynaPulse® blood pressure system.  The DynaPulse® unit is a computer based blood pressure monitoring and tracking system.  This system senses the pressure caused by the application of the cuff and sends the data to a personal computer.  The system, which is calibrated yearly to ensure utmost accuracy, allows the pharmacists at Rice Drugs to measure your blood pressure and pulse rate accurately and efficiently.  Data is then displayed in picturesque form, stored and analyzed.

     The DynaPulse® system is unique in the fact that a lifetime of measurements with comments can be stored and displayed for each patient that chooses to be monitored at Rice Drugs.  This information proves to be very valuable not only to the pharmacists and patients, but also is very useful for physicians in charge of choosing the appropriate medical therapy.  All readings can easily be displayed and printed out in a form that can be sent with the patient to a scheduled doctor appointment in order for a trend in blood pressure to be analyzed and properly treated.

     DynaPulse® is just another way in which the pharmacists at Rice Drugs are meeting their goal of reducing the risks and complications associated with high blood pressure.  For further information regarding DynaPulse® or high blood pressure, contact one of our pharmacists today at 1-888-650-RICE or e-mail us at rx@ricedrugs.com

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