Diagnosing and Treating High Blood Pressure
In this video, learn how doctors diagnose and treat high blood pressure to prevent further damage to the heart and body.
Measuring blood pressure may seem like a routine part of your doctor’s visit, but understanding its role in your heart health is critical. If left untreated, high blood pressure can have serious consequences on the rest of the body, including stroke, heart failure, vision loss, erectile dysfunction in men, decreased sex drive in women, and kidney disease.
Unfortunately, high blood pressure doesn’t typically present symptoms at first. In this video, healthcare professionals explain how high blood pressure is diagnosed and treated.
- Michelle Weisfelner Bloom, MD, FACC, FHFSADr. Bloom is a Cardiologist, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Stony Brook University Medical Center, a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Heart Failure Society of America.
- Paul Knoepflmacher, MDDr. Knoepflmacher is a Clinical Instructor of Medicine at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, where he also maintains a private practice.
- Joan PaganoJoan Pagano is an exercise physiologist in New York City.
- Antonella Apicella, RDAntonella Apicella is a registered dietitian at the Lenox Hill Hospital Outpatient Nutrition Program.
- Rachel Bond, MD, FACCRachel Bond, MD, FACC, is a Cardiologist at Dignity Health and served as Associate Director of the Women's Heart Health Program at Northwell Health, Lenox Hill Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Cardiology at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine.
- Frances Largeman-Roth, RDNFrances Largeman-Roth is a nutritionist and cookbook author in New York City.
References
American Heart Association. (2017). Changes you can make to manage high blood pressure.
American Heart Association. (2022). Health threats from high blood pressure.
American Heart Association. (n.d.). Understanding blood pressure readings.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2017). Get The Facts: Sodium and the Dietary Guidelines.
U.S. Department of Agriculture. (2020). Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020 - 2025.