The poll is based at the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation and supported by AARP and Michigan Medicine, U-M’s academic medical center. The new poll report focuses on responses from the 60% of the poll respondents who said they were either taking a medication to control their blood pressure or had a chronic health condition that requires blood pressure control – specifically, a history of stroke, coronary heart disease, congestive heart failure, diabetes, chronic kidney disease or hypertension (also called high blood pressure). The findings come from the National Poll on Healthy Aging, which asked older adults about their chronic health conditions, blood pressure monitoring outside of clinic settings, and interactions with health providers about blood pressure. Past research has shown that regular home monitoring can help with blood pressure control, and that better control can mean reduced risk of death and cardiovascular events, including strokes and heart attacks. But a new poll finds less than half of people in this group regularly check their blood pressure at home or in other places outside the health care system.Įven among people with such health conditions who said their health providers encouraged them to check their blood pressure regularly, only about two-thirds actually did.Įxploring the reasons why, and finding ways to prompt more people with these health conditions to check their blood pressure regularly, could play an important role in helping patients live longer and maintain heart and brain health, the poll’s authors say. More than half of adults between the ages of 50 and 80 have a health condition that puts them at high risk of major health emergencies if they don’t keep their blood pressure under control.
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