Taking Your High Blood Pressure Medications Properly: Where To Go From Here

Taking Your High Blood Pressure Medications Properly
Introduction
What do medications do for high blood pressure?
Why is it important that I take my medications properly?
How can I take my blood pressure medications properly?
Where to go from here
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Where to go from here

Now that you have read the information on taking your medicines properly for high blood pressure, you are ready to develop your system for taking your medicines properly.

Talk with your doctor

If you have questions about this information, take it with you when you visit your doctor. You may want to use a highlighter to mark areas or make notes in the margins of the pages where you have questions.

If you don't have a medication plan already, schedule a time with your doctor to develop one. If you would like more information on taking your medicines properly, the following resources are available:

If you would like more information on high blood pressure, the following resources are available:

Organization

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
P.O. Box 30105
Bethesda, MD 20824-0105
Phone:	(301) 592-8573
Fax:	(240) 629-3246
TDD:	(240) 629-3255
E-mail:	nhlbiinfo@nhlbi.nih.gov
Web Address:	www.nhlbi.nih.gov

The U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) information center offers information and publications about preventing and treating heart, lung, and blood diseases.

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Last updated:	April 24, 2007
Author:	Robin Parks, MS
Reviewed By:	Caroline S. Rhoads, MD - Internal Medicine, Ruth Schneider, MPH, RD - Diet and Nutrition
Editors:	Kathleen M. Ariss, MS, Pat Truman

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