Million Hearts: Building Community, Saving Lives: International Community Health Services: Champions Hypertension Control

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• Alternative Title:
  Million Hearts–Success in Blood Pressure Control: Building Community, Saving Lives
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Description:
  Keeping blood pressure under control helps prevent heart attacks and strokes and saves lives. Million Hearts® launched the Hypertension Control Challenge in 2012 to recognize clinicians and health systems who make blood pressure control their goal. The Hypertension Control Champions use evidence-based strategies to achieve blood pressure control rates in their practices at or above the Million Hearts® goal of 70% of adult patients. As of 2015, CDC has recognized 59 clinicians, health care practices, and health systems as Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Champions.
• Content Notes:
  Publication date approximated from file properties
• Subjects:
  Chronic Disease Heart Diseases Hypertension Stroke
• Keywords:
  2025 CDC Chronic Disease Prevention Resource Guide Heart Disease And Stroke (Chronic Health Topic) Success Stories
• Series:
  Million Hearts
• DOI:
  https://www.doi.org/10.15620/cdc/251845
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Handout / Flyer
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• Collection(s):
  Chronic Diseases and Conditions
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a412cf3c44982dbe3547c30f765b8e53539bfe3e3662b9b3dfb322220a6fb55024cc3dd050bd2aae595beed5d625a5ca2885d66db1689eaea51750aead3c2815
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/251845/cdc_251845_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 111.62 KB ]