Welcome to the Hypertension Resistant to Treatment Podcast!- Initially, our goal was to empower individuals to effectively manage their blood pressure with the help of healthcare professionals.- However, our focus has evolved to supporting healthcare providers' guidance in patient-shared decision-making to improve blood pressure control, recognizing their crucial role in patient outcomes. -Led by Dr. Tonya Breaux-Shropshire(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=tonya+breaux-shropshire), we e ...

Information and advice about your health and how it is affected by blood pressure. We explore ways to control high blood pressure with lifestyle and diets changes. Also we offer the latest up to date list of validated BP Monitors approved for accuracy by BIHS https://blood-pressure-monitoring.org/monitors-bhs-approved/

How does your body control your breathing unconsciously? This album explores this complex process in fascinating detail using a battery of detectors attached to human guinea-pigs to monitor their breathing, blood flow and heartbeats. How does an anxious mind affect this system during a stressful situation? Whether stress is physical or emotional, the ancient “fight or flight” response is triggered. Physiologically, this can lead to the stress-related diseases which are getting more common in ...

Welcome to MEDITATION SPACE. Meditation focuses the mind and eliminates distractions to improve clarity, calm, and awareness. Mindfulness, stress reduction, and inner serenity are commonly achieved through it. Meditation has been practised for millennia in Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Jainism. Each meditation method has its own goals and practises. Some of the meditations we will practice include: Mindfulness Meditation: Focusing on the present, including thoughts, feelings, and emotions, ...

A simple podcast answering simple questions.

While patients may have different goals and preferences for treatment, which can make selecting the best hypertension management plan difficult, adherence may be increased if the plan aligns with the patient’s preferences. What approaches in shared decision-making may improve adherence? In this episode clinicians and a patient discuss changes in terminology when talking about patient compliance to the use of adherence and non-adherence. These changes are part of the larger shift to shared de ...