American Heart Association says Prehypertension in late Pregnancy linked with underweight Newborns, Stillbirths
February 4, 2016
American Heart Association Rapid Access Journal Report
Dallas, TX – Women who develop prehypertension late in pregnancy may be more likely to give birth to underweight or stillborn babies than women whose blood pressure remains normal, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Hypertension.
Prehypertension is a systolic pressure (the top number) between 120-129 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) or a diastolic pressure (the bottom number) between 80-89 mm Hg, or both.
Blood pressure monitoring. (American Heart Association)
Tennessee Department of Health Provides Information About the Value of Sleep
July 31, 2014
Now I Lay Me Down To …
Nashville, TN – Sleep is not a luxury; it is a basic health need long known to affect a person’s ability to think and function.
Increasingly scientists and researchers are learning more about other values of sleep that may impact health and help improve and extend lives. [Read more]
Tennessee New Parents to receive Book teaching Safe Sleep for Infants
January 12, 2014
Tennessee Department of Health Partners with Tennessee Hospitals, Charlie’s Kids Foundation
Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Department of Health is partnering with the Charlie’s Kids Foundation and Tennessee hospitals to provide teaching materials to help new parents and hospital staff members learn the “ABCs of safe sleep.”
TDH will provide hospitals that join the project with copies of the Sleep Baby Safe and Snug board book for each baby born in their facility in 2014.
The Tennessee Department of Health has purchased 86,000 copies of Sleep Baby Safe and Snug and will provide copies for each baby born in partner hospitals in 2014.
