Bankix Systems Blog: Managing Weight

{ Posted by Third Party Blog on 2010-01-31 18:26:31 }

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New Tools and Systems Can Help Primary Care Clinicians Manage ...

{ Posted by Third Party Blog on 2010-01-31 06:25:28 }

In the first article, James A. Blumenthal, PhD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, and colleagues studied 144 overweight or obese patients with high blood pressure. For 4 months, 46 were assigned to follow ... Blood pressure decreased by 16.1/9.9 mmHg among those in the DASH plus weight management group, 11.2/7.5 mmHg among those in the DASH alone group, and 3.4/3.8 mmHg in those following their normal diet. Other measures of blood vessel and heart ...