Consumer Health Guides - The Office of Minority Health

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	Resolve to Be a Healthier You in 2005-Create a Family Health Portrait for You and Your Family Health care professionals have known for a long time that common diseases - heart disease, cancer, and diabetes - and even rare diseases - like hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell anemia - can run in families. If one generation of a family has high blood pressure, it is not unusual for the next generation to have similarly high blood pressure.
	U.S. Moves to Develop U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission
	National Kidney Disease Education Program Kidney Connection Guide Make health a family reunion affair! As you are planning your family reunion, don’t forget to put good health on the menu. This guide has everything African-American families need in order to talk about the connection between diabetes, high blood pressure and kidney disease.
	Your Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure If your blood pressure is between 120/80 mmHg and 139/89 mmHg, then you have prehypertension. This means that you don’t have high blood pressure now but are likely to develop it in the future unless you adopt the healthy lifestyle changes described in this brochure.
	Social Security Online The online Fact Sheet lists various services offered online including information about filing for retirement, spouse's and disability benefits online, subscribing to our online newsletter, the Social Security Statement, and out benefit planners.
	A Grandparents' Guide This guide offers information and tips to help grandparents become nurturing role models. It also includes a safety checklist on child-proofing the home.
	Grandparents Raising Grandchildren This fact sheet provides an overview and related information and resources on the many reasons why grandparents step in to care for their grandchildren.
	Pocket Guide to Minority Health Resources This easy-to-use guide is a compilation of federal information centers and clearinghouses, national organizations, etc.

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