New Spanish language guides inform decisions about heart disease and other illnesses.
Rockville, Maryland, August 15, 2011- PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE /-A free booklet illustrated and easy to read, you compare the drug to prevent heart attacks, heart failure or stroke in people with stable coronary artery disease, is one of the six new publications on Spanish of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Agency for the research and the quality of care M)(eddic) of the HHS, which helps patients to compare treatments for common diseases.
Publication, guide to precipitate are in treatment of stable coronary artery disease (“ACE Inhibitors” and “arbs” does Your Heart toProtect?-A Guide for Patients Being Treated for Stable Coronary Heart Disease) summarizes the risks and benefits of the drugs called ACE inhibitors (angiotensin angiotensin, or ACE, for its acronym in English) and BRA (angiotensin II Receptor Blockers)(, or ARB, for its acronym in English). These drugs help reduce blood pressure in patients who often take other cardiac medications, such as aspirin, anticoagulants or medications to lower cholesterol.
“This new guide at Spanish on cardiac drugs is part of the ongoing effort of the AHRQ to provide the knowledge they need to assume one greater role in their health care for Hispanics,” said the Director of AHRQ, the doctor of medicine Carolyn M. Clancy. “All patients should have access to the best information available, and can work with your doctor to identify the best treatment”.
The other five guides in Spanish comparing treatment options for common diseases are as follows:
– controls the pain for a hip fracture (Managing Pain from to Broken Hip) compares medicines to ease the pain a fracture of hip and other treatments such as nerve blocks and the acupressure.
-Options for trying to tear the muscles and tendons of the shoulder (Treatment Options for Rotator Cuff Tears) compares the surgical and non-surgical treatments including physiotherapy, to treat the injury of the rotator cuff, often painful tearing of tendons of the shoulder is used to lift and rotate the arms.
-Depression after brain injury (Depression after Brain Injury) compares antidepressants and psychotherapy for the treatment of depression in people who have suffered a traumatic brain injury, as for example a blow to the head.
-Learn about radiotherapy in head and neck cancer (Understanding Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer) compares various types of radiotherapy for cancer of the neck and head, including two dimensional radiation therapy and intensity modulated radiation therapy.
-Growth hormone human for children with cystic fibrosis (Human Growth Hormone for Children with Cystic Fibrosis) analyzes the benefits and risks of the somatropina, a the human growth hormone that is injected to the children on a daily basis to the problems of growth associated with fibrosis cystic.
The AHRQ now offers 23 publications in Spanish comparing treatments for heart and vascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, bone disease and joints, pregnancy, mental health and disorders of the digestive system. These and their guides companions in English were produced by the Effective Health Care Program (program of effective medical care) of AHRQ, which conducts research on outcomes focused on patients and puts the results of the research available to consumers, medicalpolicy makers and other stakeholders.
The guides at Spanish Effective Health Care for patients of the AHRQ are available here. To order printed copies, please send an email to AHRQ Publications Clearinghouse (the AHRQ Publications Centre) in ahrqpubs@ahrq.gov, or call (800) 358-9295. For other tools to the consumer of the AHRQ in Spanish, see here.
