Million Hearts Colorado: Webinar on New JNC8 High Blood Pressure Treatment Guidelines Available

The JNC 8 committee was appointed in 2008 by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and was charged with reviewing and synthesizing the most recent available scientific evidence, updating existing clinical recommendations and providing guidance for clinicians on the best approaches to manage and control high blood pressure. This guideline has been long-awaited and much anticipated with the last revision, the JNC 7 report, having been published in 2003. Join Colorado Foundation for Medical Care and speaker Mori Krantz, MD for a review of these new guidelines.

Mori Krantz, MD is a practicing preventive cardiologist at the nationally recognized safety net hospital, Denver Health and Co-investigator of the Colorado Heart Healthy Solutions program. Author and co-author of more than 100 scholarly publications pertaining to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, Dr. Krantz also serves as an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Cardiology Division at the University Of Colorado School Of Medicine.

View the WEBINAR here - registration is required. Here is the PRESENTATION and HANDOUT.

High blood pressure management is a key strategy of the  Million Hearts Initiative, an effort to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes over five years.  Colorado Foundation for Medical Care and Colorado Heart Healthy Solutions participate in this Colorado initiative and you can too. Be one in a million - make your commitment and pledge today.