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What to know about High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

There are a few guidelines that physicians tend to follow and these are the Cardiology/American Heart Association (C/AHA) and the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood pressure. What are some of the complications from having hypertension? This reading may fluctuate throughout the day.

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Episode 232: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 15 – Housing is Health: Racism and Homelessness – Clinician + Community Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Dr. Kushel detailed how the use of dehumanizing language equates to complicity in a narrative that systemically harms our neighbors with lived expertise in homelessness. By 2003, 37% were 50 and older. Our guests remind us to ask our patients about their housing status using non-judgmental and non-stigmatizing language.