Mind Your Risks® is a public health campaign that educates Black men with, or at risk of, high blood pressure about the importance of taking charge of their health. Controlling high blood pressure between the ages of 28 and 45 can help reduce the risk of having a stroke and developing dementia later in life. Use these resources to help us make the campaign a success.
Mind Your Risks® (MYR) campaign resources are available to download in a variety of formats. To co-brand MYR materials with your organization’s logo and contact information, request printed brochures in a specific quantity, or become an active partner of the campaign, please contact braininfo@ninds.nih.gov.
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Mind Your Risks® is a public health campaign that educates Black men with, or at risk of, high blood pressure about the importance of taking charge of their health. Controlling high blood pressure between the ages of 28 and 45 can help reduce the risk of having a stroke and developing dementia later in life. Use these resources to help us make the campaign a success.
Mind Your Risks® (MYR) campaign resources are available to download in a variety of formats, including print ads (9.5”x11.25”), a brochure, posters (11”x17”), and social media content/images. The print materials are ready to print at home or take to your local quick-print shop. To co-brand MYR materials with your organization’s logo and contact information, request printed brochures in a specific quantity, or become an active partner of the campaign, please contact braininfo@ninds.nih.gov.
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What to Ask Your Healthcare Provider about High Blood Pressure, Stroke, & Dementia (8.5”X11” Fillable PDF)
What to Ask Your Healthcare Provider about High Blood Pressure, Stroke, & Dementia (6”X9” Postcard)
Mind Your Risks Webinar: How Black Men Can Help Prevent
Stroke & Dementia Later in Life
October 19, 2022
NINDS and Morehouse College partnered to host a free webinar
focused on this important health topic. During the webinar,
experts spoke about the higher risks of these health
problems for Black men; the science behind high blood
pressure, stroke, and dementia; and ways you can take steps
now to lower the risk of health problems later in life.
Men’s Health Month: How Black Men Can Help Prevent Stroke
& Dementia Later in Life
June 27, 2022
In honor of Men’s Health Month, Morehouse College, Morehouse
School of Medicine, and NINDS partnered to host a free
webinar focused on this important health topic. During the
webinar, experts spoke about the higher risks of these
health problems for Black men; the science behind high blood
pressure, stroke, and dementia; and ways you can take steps
now to lower the risk of health problems later in life.
World Hypertension Day: A Conversation about High Blood
Pressure, Stroke, & Dementia in Black Men
May 17, 2023
On May 17, World Hypertension Day, NINDS partnered with the
DC HBCU Alumni Alliance to host a Facebook Live event. This
event focused on ways Black men can take charge of their
health today, to help prevent stroke & dementia tomorrow.
For more information about the Mind Your Risks campaign,
please visit:
https://www.mindyourrisks.nih.gov/
Many health and government organizations offer tools and resources to help you with blood pressure control.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides fact sheets on stroke and heart disease, podcasts on heart healthy diets, downloadable PDFs on high blood pressure in English and Spanish, and information from the Million Hearts® community of health workers.
Million Hearts® has information and resources to help people take steps to prevent heart attacks and strokes.
Million Hearts® for Clinicians Microsite offers evidence-based protocols, action guides, quality improvement tools, and patient resources to help clinicians and other health professionals reduce their patients’ risk for a heart attack or stroke.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) offers patient information in English and Spanish.
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) offers information on stroke treatment and management on its Know Stroke website, as well as information on a variety of neurological disorders.
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) offers information on Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia on its Alzheimer’s Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) website.
MedlinePlus offers basic information about high blood pressure, including an animated slide show on its causes, complications, diagnoses, and control.
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Check out the current scientific
research.
“About one in three Americans — around 70 million people — have high blood pressure, and only half of them have their blood pressure under control.”
Gary Gibbons, M.D., Director of NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
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