The new sixty minute program (# 873) of the Network for Continuing Medical Education Television (NCME-TV), is available now. It is entitled Diet as a Means to Prevent and Control Elevated Blood Pressure. 
Below is a description taken from the NCME-TV website:
“Dietary modifications and other lifestyle changes are vital in preventing or controlling blood pressure (BP) in people of all ages: in children, to blunt the steep age-related rise in BP; in middle-aged adults, to prevent hypertension; and in older adults, to improve BP control even if on medication. Lifestyle changes also provide substantial but unrecognized opportunites to reduce racial disparities in BP. In this video, Dr. Lawrence Appel, a leading authority on nutrition and health, discusses studies in which sodium restriction and other dietary modifications were shown to reduce BP. He also describes the results of studies demonstrating the effect of sodium restriction in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease events. In addition, he reviews the merits of DASH and other current diets, and provides specific recommendations regarding the types of dietary changes that patients need to make to prevent hypertension or reduce BP.”
The program host is Lawrence Appel, doctor in medicine and a public health graduate who is a faculty member of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Appel is a renowned authority in the topic of Nutrition and Health and have over 170 research papers published.
