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| | JNC 7 emphasizes systolic hypertension, thiazides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Pharmacists should redouble their counseling and education efforts for patients with hypertension, based on the JNC 7 observation that patient motivation to adhere to effective therapies is critical to achieving blood pressure goals. |
 | | The JNC (which consists of a coalition of 39 major professional, public, and voluntary organizations and seven federal agencies) released its last report in 1997. |
 | | JNC 7 authors add that public health approaches, such as reducing calories, saturated fat, and salt in processed foods and increasing community and school opportunities for physical activity, can improve the population's BP, and thus potentially reduce the lifetime risk of an individual becoming hypertensive, associated illness, and mortality risk. |
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