Pressure Point

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NJN News Health and Medical Correspondent Sara Lee Kessler examines hypertension in Pressure Point. The program explores what high blood pressure is, highlights a community outreach effort that took place in Trenton to identify, prevent and control high blood pressure - Trenton: A City with Heart Project - and offers information about what to do if you have high blood pressure.

U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher (pictured) is among the experts interviewed, as is Martha Hill, RN, Ph.D., professor and Interim Dean of Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and the former President of the American Heart Association; Dr. Keith Ferdinand, Medical Director, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Xavier University of New Orleans and former Chairman of the American Black Cardiologists; Dr. James Pruden, Chief of Emergency Medicine at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson; Dr. Daniel Levy, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School - Framingham Heart Study. Other panelists include Dr. George Mensah, M.D., CV Health Branch, CDC; Keith Ferdinand; and Dr. Deborah Beiter, a doctor who had a heart attack but didn't realize what was happening and took some antacids.

Field reporters Kate Megargee and Sia Nyorkor visit Trenton: A City with Heart project and the Rutgers program, Freshman Fifteen, that attempts to teach students to eat in a healthy manner, because freshmen typically gain at least 15 pounds when they get to college.

Aired Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 10 pm.

Major funding for Pressure Point is made possible by Bristol-Myers Squibb. Janice Selinger is Executive Producer. Joanne Sabalaske and Kate Megargee are co-producers. Sara Lee Kessler is contributing producer and host. Sia Nyorkor is Reporter/Associate Producer.