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Monitoring and evaluating efforts to control hypertension in Canada: why, how, and what it tells us needs to be done about current care gapsNorm R C Campbell
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Electronic address
Can J Cardiol 29:564-70. 2013....
A framework for discussion on how to improve prevention, management, and control of hypertension in CanadaNorm Campbell
Department of Medicine, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Can J Cardiol 28:262-9. 2012..It is hoped the Framework will stimulate discussion and input for its full intended lifespan 2011-2020. The third phase is to work with individuals and organizations on the priorities set in phase 2...
Interested in developing a national programme to reduce dietary salt?N R C Campbell
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
J Hum Hypertens 25:705-10. 2011..Developing and leading a national salt reduction programme is a major commitment, however, reducing dietary salt is estimated to be one of the most effective strategies to improve a nation's health...
Canadian initiatives to prevent hypertension by reducing dietary sodiumNorm R C Campbell
Department of Medicine, Community Health Sciences, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Libin Cardiovascular Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4Z6, Canada
Nutrients 3:756-64. 2011....
Improving hypertension management through pharmacist prescribing; the rural Alberta clinical trial in optimizing hypertension (Rural RxACTION): trial design and methodsTheresa L Charrois
Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Implement Sci 6:94. 2011..With Alberta being the first province in Canada to have independent prescribing by pharmacists, it offers a unique opportunity to evaluate outcomes in patients who are prescribed antihypertensive therapy by pharmacists...
Development of a perioperative medicine research agenda: a cross sectional surveyNadia A Khan
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
BMC Surg 4:11. 2004..We sought to determine the research priorities for perioperative medicine using a cross sectional survey of Canadian and American general internists...
Tackling health literacy: adaptation of public hypertension educational materials for an Indo-Asian population in CanadaCharlotte A Jones
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
BMC Public Health 11:24. 2011..During this project we developed and field tested the acceptability of a hypertension public education pamphlet tailored to fit the needs of an at risk local Indo-Asian population, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada...
Improving rates of pneumococcal vaccination on discharge from a tertiary center medical teaching unit: a prospective interventionChandra M Thomas
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
BMC Public Health 5:110. 2005....
Differences in need for antihypertensive drugs among those aware and unaware of their hypertensive status: a cross sectional surveyNadia A Khan
Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, 620 1081 Burrard Street, St, Paul s Hospital, V6Z 1Y6, Vancouver, BC, Canada
BMC Cardiovasc Disord 5:4. 2005..The primary aim of this study was to determine the proportion of those untreated individuals who would be recommended to start drug therapy for control of blood pressure among those aware or unaware of their diagnosis of hypertension...
2009 Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations: the scientific summary--an annual updateNorman R C Campbell
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Can J Cardiol 25:271-7. 2009....
Canadian efforts to prevent and control hypertensionNorman R C Campbell
Department of Medicine, Lubin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Alberta, Calgary, Canada
Can J Cardiol 26:14C-7C. 2010..As a result, Canada is becoming recognized as a world leader in the prevention, treatment and control of hypertension...
The Canadian Hypertension Education Program (CHEP)--a therapeutic knowledge translation programN R C Campbell
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta
Can J Clin Pharmacol 13:e65-8. 2006..CHEP aids health care professionals by providing credible, widely dissentinated up-to-date recommendations in multiple formats to suit individual learning needs. Key words: Hypertension, knowledge translation...
The Outcomes Research Task Force and the Canadian Hypertension Education ProgramN Campbell
Libin Cardiovascular Institute and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Can J Cardiol 22:556-8. 2006..Preliminary data support a large increase in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension corresponding to the initiation of CHEP...
Public education on hypertension: a new initiative to improve the prevention, treatment and control of hypertension in CanadaN R Campbell
Departments of Medicine, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Libin Cardiovascular Institute, University of Alberta, 3330 Hospital Drive Northwest, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Can J Cardiol 22:599-603. 2006..The program outcomes will be monitored using Statistics Canada national surveys and by specific surveys examining hypertension knowledge in the Canadian population...
The Canadian effort to prevent and control hypertension: can other countries adopt Canadian strategies?Norm R C Campbell
Departments of Medicine, Community Health Sciences and Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Curr Opin Cardiol 25:366-72. 2010..To indicate the key elements of current Canadian programs to treat and control hypertension...
2010 Canadian Hypertension Education Program (CHEP) recommendations: the scientific summary - an update of the 2010 theme and the science behind new CHEP recommendationsNorman R C Campbell
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta
Can J Cardiol 26:236-40. 2010....
Canadian Hypertension Education Program: the science supporting New 2011 CHEP recommendations with an emphasis on health advocacy and knowledge translationNorman R C Campbell
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Can J Cardiol 27:407-14. 2011..To aid a substantive knowledge translation gap, health care professionals and people with hypertension can now receive regular CHEP updates by signing up at the Web sites htnupdate.ca and www.myBPsite.ca...
Automated assessment of blood pressure using BpTRU compared with assessments by a trained technician and a clinic nurseNorm R C Campbell
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Blood Press Monit 10:257-62. 2005..To determine the accuracy and reproducibility of a new automated blood pressure manometer (BpTRU) relative to auscultatory blood pressure assessed by a research nurse and to that assessed by a clinic nurse...
Effect on lipid, complete blood count and blood proteins of a standardized preparation for drawing blood: a randomized controlled trialN R Campbell
Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Calgary, Alta
Clin Invest Med 23:350-4. 2000..The aim was to see if hemoconcentration and spuriously elevated lipid levels could be avoided...
Self-measurement of blood pressure: accuracy, patient preparation for readings, technique and equipmentN R Campbell
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Group, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Blood Press Monit 6:133-8. 2001..We examined accuracy of readings, patient knowledge, and preparation for readings, technique and equipment...
Hypertension surveillance in Canada: minimum standards for assessing blood pressure in surveysNorm R C Campbell
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
Can J Public Health 96:217-20. 2005....
Is usual measurement of blood pressure meaningful?N R Campbell
Divisions of General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Blood Press Monit 4:71-6. 1999..Standardized measurement of blood pressure is widely recommended but rarely applied in usual clinical practice...
The 2001 Canadian hypertension recommendations: take-home messagesNorman R C Campbell
Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alta
CMAJ 167:661-8. 2002
Temporal trends in antihypertensive drug prescriptions in Canada before and after introduction of the Canadian Hypertension Education ProgramNorman R C Campbell
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Calgary, Calgary Alberta, Canada
J Hypertens 21:1591-7. 2003..This study was designed to examine temporal trends in antihypertensive drug prescribing and to explore whether drug prescriptions changed after initiation of the new CHEP guideline process...
Building capacity for awareness and risk factor identification in the community: the blood pressure assessment program of the Calgary Fire DepartmentN R Campbell
Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada
Can J Cardiol 17:1275-9. 2001....
Increases in antihypertensive prescriptions and reductions in cardiovascular events in CanadaNorm R C Campbell
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Hypertension 53:128-34. 2009..The Canadian Hypertension Education Program educational model for improving health care could be adopted by other countries with well-developed professional and scientific societies...
The 2009 Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations for the management of hypertension: Part 2--therapyNadia A Khan
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Can J Cardiol 25:287-98. 2009..To update the evidence-based recommendations for the prevention and management of hypertension in adults for 2009...
The 2004 Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations for the management of hypertension: Part I--Blood pressure measurement, diagnosis and assessment of riskBrenda R Hemmelgarn
Division of Nephrology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Can J Cardiol 20:31-40. 2004..Only the recommendations that achieved high levels of consensus are reported. These guidelines will be updated annually...
Incidence, cardiovascular complications and mortality of hypertension by sex and ethnicityHude Quan
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, 3280 Hospital Dr NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4Z6
Heart 99:715-21. 2013..To compare ethnic and sex difference in the incidence of newly diagnosed hypertension, and subsequent risk of cardiovascular disease outcomes among South Asian, Chinese and white patients...
Outcomes among 3.5 million newly diagnosed hypertensive canadiansHude Quan
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Electronic address
Can J Cardiol 29:592-7. 2013..This population-based study assessed rates of all-cause mortality, myocardial infarction, heart failure, and stroke for up to 12 years of follow-up in 3.5 million Canadian adults newly diagnosed with hypertension...
Cardiovascular outcomes in framingham participants with diabetes: the importance of blood pressureGuanmin Chen
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Hypertension 57:891-7. 2011..Although diabetes mellitus is associated with increased risks of death and cardiovascular events in Framingham subjects, much of this excess risk is attributable to coexistent hypertension...
Canada Chair in hypertension prevention and control: a pilot projectNorm R C Campbell
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta
Can J Cardiol 23:557-60. 2007..The pilot project was funded by The Canadian Hypertension Society, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and sanofi-aventis, in partnership with Blood Pressure Canada, and will finish in July 2011...
Salt and high blood pressureSailesh Mohan
Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Clin Sci (Lond) 117:1-11. 2009....
The 2004 Canadian recommendations for the management of hypertension: Part II--TherapyNadia A Khan
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Can J Cardiol 20:41-54. 2004..Only recommendations achieving at least 70% consensus are reported here. These guidelines will continue to be updated annually...
The 2009 Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations for the management of hypertension: Part 1--blood pressure measurement, diagnosis and assessment of riskRaj S Padwal
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Can J Cardiol 25:279-86. 2009..To provide updated, evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis and assessment of adults with hypertension...
Reducing costs and improving hypertension managementVida Stankus
EPICORE Centre, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Canada
Can J Clin Pharmacol 16:e151-5. 2009..To quantify the cost-savings that could be realized by switching patients from two separate agents, ACE inhibitor/ARB and thiazide diuretic, to a fixed dose combination product...
Regional variations in not treating diagnosed hypertension in CanadaSailesh Mohan
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Can J Cardiol 26:409-13. 2010..Improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension have been documented in Canada following implementation of a national program to improve hypertension management...
The 2008 Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations for the management of hypertension: Part 1 - blood pressure measurement, diagnosis and assessment of riskRaj J Padwal
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Can J Cardiol 24:455-63. 2008..To provide updated, evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis and assessment of adults with hypertension...
Characteristics of hypertensive Canadians not receiving drug therapyNorman R C Campbell
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Can J Cardiol 24:485-90. 2008..To aid in the development of specific programs to improve hypertension management, the present report characterizes Canadians who indicated that they had hypertension but were not taking antihypertensive drug therapy...
Reducing dietary sodium and decreases in cardiovascular disease in CanadaErika D Penz
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Can J Cardiol 24:497-1. 2008..Increases in dietary sodium increase blood pressure, whereas emerging evidence confirms that the reduction in dietary sodium results in reduced cardiovascular events...
Hypertension in people with type 2 diabetes: Update on pharmacologic managementNorm R C Campbell
University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada
Can Fam Physician 57:997-1002, e347-53. 2011..To summarize the evidence for the need to improve pharmacologic management of hypertension in people with type 2 diabetes and to provide expert advice on how blood pressure (BP) treatment can be improved in primary care...
Hypertension in diabetes: a call to actionNorman R C Campbell
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Can J Cardiol 25:299-302. 2009..Intensive individualized lifestyle modification is recommended to prevent and treat hypertension, dyslipidemia, dysglycemia and other vascular risks in people with diabetes...
Antihypertensive medication prescribing in 27,822 elderly Canadians with diabetes over the past decadeFinlay A McAlister
Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2R7, Canada
Diabetes Care 29:836-41. 2006..The purpose of this study was to examine whether prescribing practices for elderly individuals with diabetes and hypertension changed over the past decade...
Major depression as a risk factor for high blood pressure: epidemiologic evidence from a national longitudinal studyScott B Patten
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada
Psychosom Med 71:273-9. 2009..To determine whether major depression (MD) leads to an increased risk of new-onset high blood pressure diagnoses...
Misclassification of blood pressure by usual measurement in ambulatory physician practicesNorm R C Campbell
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Am J Hypertens 18:1522-7. 2005..Standardized measurement of blood pressure (BP) is widely recommended but rarely followed in usual clinical practice...
Hypertension: are you and your patients up to date?Selina Omar Allu
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta
Can J Cardiol 26:261-4. 2010..A multitude of resources that address the diverse learning needs of health care professionals and the general public are highlighted...
Dietary sodium and cardiovascular outcomes: a rational approachS Brian Penner
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Can J Cardiol 23:567-72. 2007....
Identification of factors driving differences in cost effectiveness of first-line pharmacological therapy for uncomplicated hypertensionScott W Klarenbach
Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Can J Cardiol 26:e158-63. 2010..The drivers of these disparities are not clear. Greater understanding is needed for clinicians, researchers and policy makers to determine the most effective and sustainable strategies...
The 2010 Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations for the management of hypertension: part I - blood pressure measurement, diagnosis and assessment of riskRobert R Quinn
Division of Nephrology, University of Calgary, Alberta
Can J Cardiol 26:241-8. 2010..To provide updated, evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis and assessment of adults with hypertension...
The 2001 Canadian Hypertension Recommendations--What is new and what is old but still importantNorman R C Campbell
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Can J Cardiol 18:591-603. 2002
The 2008 Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations for the management of hypertension: part 2 - therapyNadia A Khan
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Can J Cardiol 24:465-75. 2008..To update the evidence-based recommendations for the prevention and management of hypertension in adults...
The 2005 Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations for the management of hypertension: part II - therapyNadia A Khan
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Can J Cardiol 21:657-72. 2005..All recommendations reported here achieved at least 95% consensus. These guidelines will continue to be updated annually...
Hypertension management in Canada: good news, but important challenges remainSailesh Mohan
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta
CMAJ 178:1458-60. 2008
The impact of the Canadian Hypertension Education Program on antihypertensive prescribing trendsNorman R C Campbell
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Hypertension 47:22-8. 2006....
Validity of ICD-9-CM administrative data for determining eligibility for pneumococcal vaccination triggersCarla S Coffin
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada
Am J Med Qual 20:158-63. 2005..58-0.86). The reasonably high specificity and sensitivity of diagnostic codes in administrative data could be used to trigger appropriate pneumococcal vaccination among eligible patients after hospital discharge...
Polytherapy with two or more antihypertensive drugs to lower blood pressure in elderly Ontarians. Room for improvementNorman R C Campbell
Department of Medicine, Libin Cardiovascular Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Can J Cardiol 23:783-7. 2007..Although guidelines now recommend polytherapy to achieve blood pressure targets, little is know about which antihypertensive drugs are combined in clinical practice...
Thiazide diuretics in the management of hypertensionNadia A Khan
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Can J Clin Pharmacol 11:e41-4. 2004....
The Canadian Hypertension Education Program (CHEP) recommendations: launching a new seriesFinlay A McAlister
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta
CMAJ 173:508-9. 2005
Why some adult Canadians do not have blood pressure measuredErnest Amankwah
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 9:944-51. 2007..Education programs targeting those at risk as well as more convenient BP screening may improve awareness and testing...
Stroke prevention and sodium restrictionNorman R C Campbell
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Libin Cardiovascular Institute, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Can J Neurol Sci 35:278-9. 2008
Lifestyle modifications to prevent and manage hypertension for exercise physiologists and fitness professionalsVeronica K Jamnik
Kinesiology and Health Sci, York Univ, Bethune College, Toronto, ON
Can J Appl Physiol 30:754-61. 2005....
The 2001 Canadian recommendations for the management of hypertension: Part one--Assessment for diagnosis, cardiovascular risk, causes and lifestyle modificationKelly B Zarnke
London Health Sciences Centre, University Hospital Campus, London, Canada
Can J Cardiol 18:604-24. 2002....
The 2007 Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations for the management of hypertension: part 2 - therapyNadia A Khan
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
Can J Cardiol 23:539-50. 2007..To provide updated, evidence-based recommendations for the prevention and management of hypertension in adults...
The 2001 Canadian recommendations for the management of hypertension: Part two--TherapyFinlay A McAlister
University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Canada
Can J Cardiol 18:625-41. 2002..Only those recommendations achieving high levels of consensus are reported here. These guidelines will continue to be updated annually...
Canadian Hypertension Education Program: the evolution of hypertension management guidelines in CanadaRoss D Feldman
Robarts Research Institute and Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Can J Cardiol 24:477-81. 2008..CHEP, a likely contributor, is being increasingly viewed as an international model for knowledge translation...
Thiazide diuretics for hypertension: prescribing practices and predictors of use in 194,761 elderly patients with hypertensionKaren Tu
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 4:161-7. 2006..Socioeconomic status did not influence use of thiazides, but age, sex, and comorbidities did...
Hypertension management in the elderly has improved: Ontario prescribing trends, 1994 to 2002Karen Tu
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada
Hypertension 45:1113-8. 2005..0001). Our data provide evidence that the physician management of hypertension in elderly Canadians became more aggressive between 1994 and 2002...
Systematic error in the determination of nocturnal blood pressure dipping status by ambulatory blood pressure monitoringSrinu Kammila
Division of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Blood Press Monit 7:131-4. 2002..Patients need clear instructions not to place their arm on a pillow at night during blood pressure monitoring...
Do we need another protocol for assessing the validity of blood pressure measuring devices?Norman R C Campbell
Blood Press Monit 7:1-2. 2002
