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Incorrect arm position when your blood pressure is being measured may result in a mistakenly high reading, a study by Tammy Brady, a cardiovascular health promotion expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. Brady says since home blood pressure …

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Vital signs like blood pressure may be measured by a number of clinicians during a medical visit, and all of them need to be trained and recertified periodically. That’s according to Tammy Brady, a cardiovascular health promotion expert at Johns …

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High blood pressure is associated with cardiovascular events like heart attacks and strokes, so keeping it under control is important. Yet many times blood pressures are measured without consideration for arm position, resulting in higher readings than would be seen …

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Turns out when you get your blood pressure measured, arm position is critical. That’s according to a study led by Tammy Brady, a cardiovascular health promotion expert at Johns Hopkins, who showed that suboptimal arm positions increase the top number …

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One of the most important things you can do to prevent the number one cause of death – cardiovascular disease – is to keep your blood pressure under control, and that starts with measuring it. Tammy Brady, a cardiovascular health …

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In this month’s podcast, Nadine Rosenblum speaks with Sara Zachmann, a 2022 Nurse Scholar Fellow and new author, about her pathway to publication. Through Sara’s story, listeners gain a good overview of the process and plenty of actionable advice. Sara …

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Resilience in Stressful Events (RISE) is a peer responder program that supports health care workers who have emotional distress due to difficult care-related events. Developed in 2010 at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, RISE has been replicated by hospitals and health …

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