High Blood Pressure Publications for Patients

Learn more about your risk for high blood pressure and how to lower your risk with heart-healthy lifestyle changes, including healthy eating and physical activity.

Patient Handouts

Information and menus with examples of heart healthy meals to help make the DASH eating plan part of your daily life.

A Week With the DASH Eating Plan

Sceenshot of the Advancing Women’s Heart Health Handout

Advancing Women's Heart Health

This fact sheets provides a heart-healthy recipe for baked red snapper with zesty tomato sauce

Baked Red Snapper Recipe

Try this heart-healthy recipe for chicken quesadillas with red and green salsa

Chicken Quesadillas Recipe

Get started using the DASH eating plan to lower your blood pressure with the help of this fact sheet, which provides five steps to help you begin.

Getting Started on DASH

This fact sheet provides information on what high blood pressure is, how can it affect your health, and steps you can take to prevent or control your high blood pressure.

Healthy Blood Pressure for Healthy Hearts: Small Steps To Take Control

This worksheet provides space to write down your blood pressure readings.

Healthy Blood Pressure for Healthy Hearts: Tracking Your Numbers

Publication cover of Healthy Heart, Healthy Family - Help Your Heart: Control Your High Blood Pressure / Malusog na Puso, Malusog na Pamilya - Tulungan ang lyong Puso: Kontrolin ang lyong Alta Presyon

Healthy Heart, Healthy Family - Help Your Heart: Control Your High Blood Pressure / Malusog na Puso, Malusog na Pamilya - Tulungan ang lyong Puso: Kontrolin ang lyong Alta Presyon

Try this heart-healthy recipe for jambalaya.

Jumpin' Jambalaya Recipe

Tips to help you change to heart healthy eating with the DASH eating plan.

Making the Move to DASH

Try this heart-healthy recipe for Maria’s Veggie Wrap.

Maria's Veggie Wrap Recipe

Try this heart healthy recipe for stir-fried orange beef that’s better than takeout!

Stir-Fried Orange Beef Recipe

The Heart Truth, Put Your Heart into Healthy Eating Tip Sheet (Revised 2016)

The Heart Truth, Put Your Heart into Healthy Eating Tip Sheet (REVISED December 2016)

The Heart Truth Wallet Card (Revised 2016)

The Heart Truth Wallet Card (Revised December 2016)

This fact sheets provides tips to keep you on track with the DASH eating plan.

Tips To Keep on Track

This fact sheets provides tips to help you reduce salt and sodium in your food choices.

Tips To Reduce Salt and Sodium

This worksheet can help you understand how your current food habits compare with the DASH eating plan.

What's on Your Plate? (1,200 calories/day)

This worksheet can help you understand how your current food habits compare with the DASH eating plan.

What's on Your Plate? (1,400-1,600 calories/day)

This worksheet can help you understand how your current food habits compare with the DASH eating plan.

What's on Your Plate? (1,800-2,000 calories/day)

This worksheet can help you understand how your current food habits compare with the DASH eating plan.

What's on Your Plate? (2,600 calories/day)

This fact sheets provides an overview of the DASH eating plan, which can help to lower blood pressure

Why the DASH Eating Plan Works

Publication cover of Your Choice for Change - Honoring the Gift of Heart Health for American Indians

Your Choice for Change - Honoring the Gift of Heart Health for American Indians

En Español

Esta hoja de trabajo proporciona espacio para anotar sus números de presión arterial.

Presión arterial saludable para corazones saludables: Seguimiento de sus números

Esta hoja informativa proporciona información sobre qué es la presión arterial alta, cómo puede afectar su salud y los pasos que puede tomar para prevenir o controlar su presión arterial alta.

Presión arterial saludable para corazones saludables: Pequeños pasos para tomar el control

Publication cover for Healthy Hearts, Healthy Homes: Keep the Beat: Control Your High Blood Pressure/Corazones sanos, hogares saludables: Cuide su vida: Controle su presión arterial alta

Healthy Hearts, Healthy Homes: Keep the Beat: Control Your High Blood Pressure/Corazones sanos, hogares saludables: Cuide su vida: Controle su presión arterial alta

Additional Resources

High Blood Pressure Social Media Resources

Share these Facebook and Twitter resources in your outreach efforts to educate people about how to prevent high blood pressure.

High Blood Pressure Publications for Health Professionals

Find helpful high blood pressure publications and fact sheets for health professionals. 

High Blood Pressure Videos

Learn about lifestyle changes that can help you lower your blood pressure. You can also watch videos featuring NHLBI researchers discussing their work to advance research and improve patients’ lives.