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Weekly JAMA Feature for July 6
TIGHT BLOOD PRESSURE CONTROL ASSOCIATED WITH WORSE OUTCOMES FOR PATIENTS WITH BOTH DIABETES AND CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
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, July 6, 2010
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
July 6, 2010
VO: NATIONAL GUIDELINES RECOMMEND PATIENTS WITH DIABETES MAINTAIN A SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE LESS THAN 130 OR “TIGHT CONTROL” VERSUS “USUAL CONTROL” BETWEEN 130 AND 140. A NEW STUDY SHOWS BLOOD PRESSURE BELOW 130 DOES NOT IMPROVE CARDIOVASCULAR OUTCOMES FOR PATIENTS WHO HAVE BOTH DIABETES AND CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE.
“Patients who attained blood pressures less than 130 had increased mortality compared to patients in the usual control category.”
VO: DR. CARL PEPINE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, GAINESVILLE AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED A SUBGROUP OF 64 HUNDRED PATIENTS FROM A LARGER RANDOMIZED TRIAL CALLED INVEST WHO WERE 50 YEARS AND OLDER, HAD DIABETES, CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AND A NEED FOR BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICATION. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“We believe that most of the effort needs to be expended to get the blood pressure below 140 but not less than 130.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
July 6, 2010
VO: NATIONAL GUIDELINES RECOMMEND PATIENTS WITH DIABETES MAINTAIN A SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE LESS THAN 130 OR “TIGHT CONTROL” VERSUS “USUAL CONTROL” BETWEEN 130 AND 140. A NEW STUDY SHOWS BLOOD PRESSURE BELOW 130 DOES NOT IMPROVE CARDIOVASCULAR OUTCOMES FOR PATIENTS WHO HAVE BOTH DIABETES AND CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE.
“Patients who attained blood pressures less than 130 had increased mortality compared to patients in the usual control category.”
VO: DR. CARL PEPINE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, GAINESVILLE AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED A SUBGROUP OF 64 HUNDRED PATIENTS FROM A LARGER RANDOMIZED TRIAL CALLED INVEST WHO WERE 50 YEARS AND OLDER, HAD DIABETES, CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AND A NEED FOR BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICATION. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“We believe that most of the effort needs to be expended to get the blood pressure below 140 but not less than 130.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.