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2012Canadian Recommendations for

the Management of Hypertension

CHEP WhatsNew?WhatsStillReallyImpo

Canadian Hypertension Education Program

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Hypertension Care Pearls

HypertensionInternetResourcesHypertension Canada

www.hypertension.ca

CompleteCanadianHypertension

EducationProgram(CHEP)

recommendations and slide decks

Signupnowforregular

HypertensionCanadaresource

updates PatientandHCPResources

Instructionsforpurchasingand

usinghomebloodpressure

measurement devices

Haveyourpatientssignupto

accessthelatesthypertension

resources

Heart and Stroke Foundation,

My Heart&Stroke Blood

Pressure Action Plan

www.heartandstroke.ca/BP MyHeart&StrokeBloodPressure

Action Plan

www.heartandstroke.ca

Generallifestylechange

information

Canadian Diabetes

Association

www.diabetes.ca/

for-professionals/

resources/2008-cpg/

2008clinicalpracticeguidelines

Canadian Stroke Network

www.sodium101.ca

PatientandHCPresourceon

dietary sodium

Public Health Agency of

Canada

www.PHAC-ASPC.gc.ca

Resourcesonhypertensionand

chronicdiseasepreventionand

management

Interprofessional team care

Involvement of an interprofessional team improves adherence

Lifestyle changes are important to make

Frequent brief interventions double the rate of lifestyle changes

All hypertensives require lifestyle assessment and ongoing support

to initiate and maintain lifestyle changes

50% of hypertensives < 45 years old are not treated

with antihypertensives, even if they have multiple

cardiovascular risks

Start pharmacotherapy for hypertensives with multiple

cardiovascular risks factors immediately, in addition to lifestyle

changes

In particular, reduce risk factors in smokers who cannot quit

Combination therapy of ACE inhibitor with ARB

Reassess all patients on this combination

Consider other combinations

Should only be considered in selected and closely monitored

patients with advanced heart failure, or severe proteinuric

nephropathy

The web page below shows the initial assessment

screen of The Heart and Stroke Foundations online

consumer education tool My Heart&Stroke Blood

Pressure Action Plan. It will help educate your patients

about the importance of managing their blood pressure

and provide ways to help them do so.

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2012 Key Messages

Assess blood pressure at all appropriate visits.

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and weight lowers blood pressure and prevents hypertension.

Promote: smoking cessation, healthy diet, dietary sodium restriction and increased physical activity.

Lower blood pressure to