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Weekly JAMA Feature for May 25
AMERICANS SHOW STEADY IMPROVEMENT IN AWARENESS, TREATMENT AND CONTROL OF HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
JAMA RADIO REPORT
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
This week’s package has an embargo until 4 p.m. (ET) Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
May 25, 2010
VO: HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE OR HYPERTENSION IS A MAJOR RISK FACTOR FOR DEVELOPING HEART DISEASE, STROKE AND OTHER HEALTH CONCERNS. IT AFFECTS MILLIONS OF AMERICANS. A NEW STUDY SHOWS OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS CONSISTENT STRIDES HAVE BEEN MADE WHEN IT COMES TO AWARENESS, TREATMENT AND CONTROL OF THIS CONDITION.
“We now have roughly one out of every two people in the U-S with high blood pressure that has it under control that also means that we have roughly one out of two people with high blood pressure that do not have it under control.”
VO: DR. BRENT EGAN FROM THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, CHARLESTON AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED BLOOD PRESSURE LEVELS IN ALMOST 43 THOUSAND ADULTS FROM 1988 TO 2008 WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE NATIONAL HEALTH AND NUTRITIONAL EXAMINATION SURVEY. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“Blood pressure control between 1988, 94, 1999, 2000 improved by about four percent but the improvement from 2000 to 2008 was about 18 percent or about 4 times as much.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
May 25, 2010
VO: HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE OR HYPERTENSION IS A MAJOR RISK FACTOR FOR DEVELOPING HEART DISEASE, STROKE AND OTHER HEALTH CONCERNS. IT AFFECTS MILLIONS OF AMERICANS. A NEW STUDY SHOWS OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS CONSISTENT STRIDES HAVE BEEN MADE WHEN IT COMES TO AWARENESS, TREATMENT AND CONTROL OF THIS CONDITION.
“We now have roughly one out of every two people in the U-S with high blood pressure that has it under control that also means that we have roughly one out of two people with high blood pressure that do not have it under control.”
VO: DR. BRENT EGAN FROM THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, CHARLESTON AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED BLOOD PRESSURE LEVELS IN ALMOST 43 THOUSAND ADULTS FROM 1988 TO 2008 WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE NATIONAL HEALTH AND NUTRITIONAL EXAMINATION SURVEY. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“Blood pressure control between 1988, 94, 1999, 2000 improved by about four percent but the improvement from 2000 to 2008 was about 18 percent or about 4 times as much.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.