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Blood pressure management in an ecosystem context

Hypertension Research volume 43, pages 989–994 (2020)Cite this article

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The Hippocratic text On Airs, Waters, Places advises physicians to attend to all aspects of the environment—the seasons, the wind direction, and the soil and water quality, i.e., the ecosystem—when addressing people’s health. Hippocrates emphasizes that the ecosystem influences health, disease, and therapeutic choices. Now is the time to consider how this medical wisdom can be integrated into healthcare systems and utilized for people’s health. This review discusses how the ecosystem can affect blood pressure (BP) in humans and provides a synthesis of the related resources available in the literature to inform the actions of healthcare providers.

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I gratefully acknowledge my great mentors in Japan and the US as well as the numerous study investigators, fellows, nurses, and research coordinators at each of the study sites. I also gratefully acknowledge my family and friends; their continued support is essential in my journey as a physician and researcher.

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