Episodes
Friday Feb 26, 2016
TEXT ME — Text Messaging to Promote Behavior Change
Friday Feb 26, 2016
Friday Feb 26, 2016
With over 75% of people using mobile phones worldwide, text messaging might be a simple, cost-effective platform to encourage lifestyle changes. Several healthcare-related applications and mobile phone text messaging systems have already been designed; yet, very few have undergone rigorous testing to confirm clinical benefit. The investigators of the Tobacco, Exercise, and Diet Messages (TEXT ME) trial designed a text message-based intervention to encourage lifestyle modifications and evaluated its impact on cardiovascular risk in patients with established CHD. The TEXT ME study provides robust findings to support a simple, inexpensive intervention to modify cardiovascular risk … at least over the short term.
Wednesday Feb 10, 2016
Pulling Ahead After a SPRINT – Evidence for Lower Blood Pressure Goals
Wednesday Feb 10, 2016
Wednesday Feb 10, 2016
The debate over the intensity of blood pressure (BP) lowering for patients with hypertension has been going on for decades. Additional fuel to the fire was recently added with the early halt and publication of the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT). So “how low should you go” for patients with high BP? Do lower BP goals reduce CV outcomes and death, particularly in patients at high risk? Do they cause greater adverse effects? Or perhaps even worsen CV outcomes? These questions were examined in SPRINT.
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