Jordana B. Cohen

Jan 15, 2025 | radcliffecardiology.com | Jordana B. Cohen |Kazem Rahimi

Faculty: Overview The programme provides an in-depth exploration of the latest strategies for managing uncontrolled hypertension, guided by recent recommendation from the ESC, ESH and KDIGO. It will examine different approaches to blood pressure control and evaluate the impact of guidance summaries such as the recent MASTERplan document, published in 2024.

Jun 11, 2024 | bottomlineinc.com | Jordana B. Cohen

Using the wrong device to check your blood pressure at home could produce inaccurate readings that leave you over- or undertreated for hypertension. Here’s how to make sure you are using the right device…Validated devices. An FDA-approval stamp is not a guarantee of accuracy. Better: Check whether the device has been vetted at ValidateBP.org, which is sponsored by the American Medical Association and lists all monitors that have been rigorously tested for accuracy.

Feb 8, 2024 | thelancet.com | Nicholas M. Pajewski |Jordana B. Cohen

Hypertension is a leading risk factor for dementia, cardiovascular disease, and death in older adults. Although intensive blood pressure control effectively reduces cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, older and frail adults might be more susceptible to adverse effects such as hypotension, falls, and electrolyte abnormalities.

Dec 19, 2023 | jamanetwork.com | Jordana B. Cohen |Stephen P Juraschek

Making Sense of Individual Responses to Sodium Reduction Effect of Dietary Sodium on Blood Pressure Deepak K. Gupta, MD, MSCI; Cora E. Lewis, MD, MSPH; Krista A. Varady, PhD; Yan Ru Su, MD; Meena S. Madhur, MD, PhD; Daniel T. Lackland, DrPH; Jared P. Reis, PhD; Thomas J. Wang, MD; Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, MD; Norrina B.

Sep 1, 2023 | kidneynews.org | Jordana B. Cohen

Blood pressure measurement often gets deprioritized as a mundane step in clinic office visits that is little more than an afterthought. In direct opposition to this common false heuristic, an international working group, comprised of many of the world's top clinical hypertension researchers, recently published a consensus statement and call to action to improve the quality of office blood pressure measurement worldwide (1).