Management of Hypertension : Time for Increased Patient Involvement

Donald DiPette, MD, FACP, FAHA

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This webinar will focus on delineating patient-related barriers, addressing these barriers, and increasing the involvement of the patient in the management and treatment of their hypertension. The importance of educating the patient on the critical role that hypertension plays in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality and that lowering the blood pressure decreases this enhanced morbidity and mortality will be addressed. Novel modalities to increase the involvement of the patient as part of the “team” will be discussed. Such modalities include using a simple and standardized pharmacologic protocol in the treatment of hypertension once diagnosed and the critical importance of including teaching the protocol and its titration steps to the patient. Such modalities to be discussed will enhance the patient’s knowledge of the hypertensive process and a “team-based” treatment approach that increases the patient’s involvement. Such an approach will address patient-related barriers and lead to an increase in hypertension control rate at individual and population levels and will be effective across a wide range of demographics such as race, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic, and geographic.