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Annotation: This toolkit includes items that health professionals can use to explain the oral-heart health connection to their patients. Resources include a blood pressure wallet card, a blood pressure report card, a handout that provides information about daily habits that can help protect the mouth and the heart, a lobby poster, an oral-heart connection guide, and an oral-heart connection infographic. All resources are available in English and in Spanish.

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Keywords: Blood pressure, Cardiovascular health, Consumer education materials, Oral health, Prevention, Spanish-language materials

Annotation: This guide presents information on how to integrate blood pressure screening and referral into a dental visit. It explains how to get ready to integrate, how to prepare an oral health team to set standards for screening and referral, and how to put the screening and referral plan into action.

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Keywords: Blood pressure, Health screening, Oral health, Referrals, Service integration, Standards

Annotation: This report presents findings from a survey of dentists in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio to assess practices related to client screening for high blood pressure (BP) and diabetes and referrals to primary care health professionals. Topics include the geographic representation of respondents based on zip codes; the respondents' role in practice, type of practice, and number of years in practice; and comparison of screening for high BP and diabetes based on years in service, comfort level with screening, and parameters for referral. Recommendations for next steps are included. A summary report is also available.

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Keywords: Blood pressure determination, Diabetes, High blood pressure, Oral health, Referrals, Risk assessment, Screening, Work force

Annotation: This report is from a panel of experts convened by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to establish a new approach for guideline development on promoting cardiovascular health (CV) and identifying and managing specific CV risk factors from infancy through young adulthood. Topics include the state of the science, screening for risk factors, nutrition and diet, physical activity, tobacco exposure, high blood pressure, lipids and lipoproteins, overweight and obesity, diabetes mellitus and other conditions, risk factor clustering, perinatal factors, inflammatory markers, an integrated CV health schedule, and implications of the guidelines.

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Keywords: , Adolescent health, Blood pressure disorders, Cardiovascular diseases, Child health, Diabetes mellitus, Guidelines, Health promotion, Infant health, Nutrition, Physical activity, Research, Risk factors, Screening, Tobacco use

Annotation: This report contains a review and analysis of literature on the association between breastfeeding and long-term health consequences, including blood pressure, diabetes and related indicators, serum cholesterol, overweight and obesity, and intellectual performance. The report discusses general methodological issues in studies of the long-term effects of breastfeeding, and discusses the study's literature search and review methods.

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Keywords: Blood pressure, Breastfeeding, Diabetes, Intelligence, Literature reviews, Obesity, Statistical analysis

Annotation: This study evaluated blood pressures in biethnic (non-Hispanic white and Mexican-American) children, kindergarten through 12th grade, using the auscultatory method (with the cuff selected by the American Heart Association recommendation) and the oscillometric method. Thee study resulted in normative blood pressure (BP) standards for both methods, produced conversion factors between BP levels obtained by the two methods; provided, for the first time, reliable normative BP levels in Mexican-American children and provided information on ethnic differences, in BP levels; and helped to determine relationships between BP levels and other variables such as age, gender, and weight. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Blood Pressure Determination, Hispanics, Hypertension, MCH Research, Mexicans, Research

Annotation: The purpose of this study was to develop normative BP data for African-American children and adolescents and to combine those data with data from a previous study in order to acquire normative BP data from three ethnic groups: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and whites. The study evaluated blood pressure (BP) in African-American children, using auscultatory and oscillometric methods. Anthropometric measures, triceps and subscapular skinfold thickness measures, three BP measures for each method of measurement (in a rotational sequence), and a dietary history were obtained for each student. A mean BP, standard deviation, and percentile values for each group by age, ethnicity, and gender were calculated for auscultatory and Dinamap values. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Blacks, Blood Pressure Determination, Hispanics, Hispanics, MCH Research, Mexicans, Mexicans, Research