CDC's Public Health Efforts
CDC currently funds
health departments in 32 states and the District of Columbia to develop
effective strategies to reduce the burden of cardiovascular diseases and
related risk factors with an overarching emphasis on heart healthy
policies and physical and social environmental changes. Through these
state programs, CDC aims to reduce disparities in treatment, risk
factors, and disease; delay the onset of disease; postpone death from
cardiovascular disease; and reduce disabling conditions. For more
information on CDC's Cardiovascular Health State Program, please visit our
Web site at http://www.cdc.gov/cvh/state_program/index.htm
For More Information
For more information
about high blood pressure, visit the Web sites of the
following CDC partners:
American Heart
Association
http://americanheart.org*
National Heart, Lung,
and Blood Institute
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov
The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention,
Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC-7).
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension/jncintro.htm
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