With that, let's get started.

[on-hold jingle] I'm excited to talk about measuring and monitoring blood pressure, which is a topic that impacts a lot of our patients and comes up pretty often in our practices.

And like our article says, blood pressure is often measured incorrectly, which can lead to overtreatment or undertreatment of hypertension or high blood pressure.

But we as pharmacists and technicians can help change that by getting patients set up with an appropriate home blood pressure monitor and teaching them how to get an accurate measurement.

And our involvement is important because we know that hypertension is a silent killer.

Most of the time, there's no obvious signs or symptoms, and many patients don't even know they have it.

But left untreated, high blood pressure can lead to serious problems, including heart attack, heart failure, and stroke.