| April 15, 2005 |
 | May is National High Blood Pressure Education Month 2005!
The new theme is | | Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible | | Here for May is The 2005 National High Blood Pressure Education Month Community Kit, available online for f|r|e|e and immediate download. Includes materials such as: - Drop-in articles for newsletters and Web sites
- My Blood Pressure Wallet Card, a great handout in convenient pocket-size. Main message to patients is, "I can do it!" to encourage them to keep up the lifestyle changes that will help lower their blood pressure
- An online network where you can register to exchange ideas and announcements about events related to combating high blood pressure in your area during Month and the rest of the year
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| The new Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible materials are also available for you and your partners to use during Month. They include: |  | - Fact sheets on high blood pressure for specific target audiences
- Spanish-language fact sheets
- Healthy eating tips
- Physical activity tips
- A Call to Action publication to help you reach out to new partners
- Ideas for new kinds of partnership activities for:
- Business Organizations
- Teachers and Schools
- Health Care Provider Groups
- Community and Civic Groups
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Join the Mission to fight high blood pressure and reduce the millions of heart attacks, strokes, and kidney failure cases it causes each year. Together, we can make it happen. Visit http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/mission/partners/join2.htm to sign up today. | | 
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Archived page, reproduced from a 2008 copy. It is reference material, not current guidance.
