Prevention of Hypertension at Home

Infection Prevention and Control at Home.

Prevention of postpartum hemorrhage at home birth in Afghanistan.

OBJECTIVE To test the safety, acceptability, feasibility, and effectiveness of community-based education and distribution of misoprostol for prevention of postpartum hemorrhage at home birth in Afghanistan. METHODS A nonrandomized experimental control design in rural Afghanistan. RESULTS A total of 3187 women participated: 2039 in the intervention group and 1148 in the control group. Of the...

Home accident prevention activities.

Prevention of Hypertension

The evidence supporting the thesis that hypertension can be prevented by eliminating salt from the diet is based on four principal sources: (1) epidemiological studies in unacculturated peoples showing that the prevalence of hypertension is inversely correlated with the degree of salt intake; (2) hemodynamic studies suggesting that the development of chronic experimental hypertension is a homeo...

Prevention of hypertension.

Hypertension is a major risk factor for many cardiovascular diseases including stroke, coronary heart disease, cardiac failure, and endstage renal disease. Therefore, prevention of hypertension becomes an important goal in overall efforts to control blood pressure and reduce the incidence of hypertension-related cardiovascular and renal complications and outcomes. Many risk factors underlying h...