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“I have the patient bring it in. I hit memory and just flip through all the dates, times, blood pressures and pulse. It gives me a lot of information,” he said.
Henry is a board-certified family practitioner at Reese Medical Associates in Spotsylvania. He was the featured speaker last week at a program on hypertension at the Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center.
More than 72 million Americans have high blood pressure. Two-thirds of them do not have their pressures well-controlled, which puts them at greater risk of a heart attack or stroke. To help his patients, Henry asks them to buy a $60 home monitor. Henry tells them to take frequent readings when they begin treatment, or when they’ve had a change in readings or medications. Once their pressures are stable, he recommends checking once a month.