Healthy Living for Elders: Keep Track of Your Blood Pressure
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Healthy Living for Elders: Keep Track of Your Blood Pressure

   

Healthy Living for Elders: Keep Track of Your Blood Pressure1

Leigh Ann Martin2

Every time you take your blood pressure at home, or have it checked by a health professional write down the date and time, the blood pressure measurement, where it was taken (home, doctor's office, etc.), and any comments from you or the health professional (ie. medications you are taking or recently stopped taking, how you feel, and the arm where the pressure was taken).

Date and Time
Blood Pressure
Place Taken
Comments




















































Talk to your doctor if you have questions about monitoring your blood pressure or hypertension. To locate a registered dietitian (RD) in your area, call The American Dietetic Association at 1-800-366-1655 (available in English and Spanish).

Footnotes

1. This is document FCS 8601-ENG, one in a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. Publication date: March 2004. This leaflet was developed with funding from the Florida Department of Elder Affairs in partnership with state, county, and local agencies. Please visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu

2. Leigh Ann Martin, MES., former ENAFS project coordinator, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. Reviewed by Linda B. Bobroff, PhD, RD, LD/N, professor, University of Florida

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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A. & M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Larry Arrington, Dean.


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