Systolic Blood Pressure and Subjective Well-Being in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
Limited information exists regarding the association between subjective well-being (SWB) and systolic blood pressure (SBP) among hypertensive patients with coronary artery disease (CAD).We tested the hypothesis that there is an association between SBP and SWB.We studied 22,576 hypertensive CAD patients [ge] 50 years old in the INternational VErapamil SR-Trandolapril Study (INVEST), a randomized, blinded-endpoint trial of antihypertensive therapy in stable CAD patients. At each study visit, patients rated their SWB in the previous 4 weeks as excellent, good, fair, or poor prior to SBP recordings. The outcome measure was SWB of fair or poor. A longitudinal analysis using generalized estimating equations was performed to assess the association between SBP and odds of reporting fai...

Multicomponent Intervention May Lower Physical Restraint UseMulticomponent Intervention May Lower Physical Restraint Use
Compared with standard information, a guideline- and theory-based multicomponent intervention was associated with reduced physical restraint use in nursing homes. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)