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Welcome to Helix Talk episode 79. I'm your co-host Dr. Kane. I'm Dr. Schumann. And I'm Dr.

Patel. In today's episode is entitled Cutting Hair and Blood Pressure, Pharmacists in the Barbershop.

And I am incredibly excited to introduce two interviewees to help introduce a study that they were involved in

that was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. So we'll go ahead and

introduce both of you. Would you mind just stating your name and kind of what your background is?

Hello, my name's Kathleen Lynch, and I worked on the cluster randomized trial of barbershop,

blood pressure reduction in barbershops. I'm originally from

New Jersey and worked at Brooklyn Hospital and completed a residency there. And now I work in

inpatient pharmacy again. My name is Adair Bweiler, or Chantella Dere Blyler. I'm a clinical

pharmacist at Cedar Sinai Medical Center where I still work, and this is

where we did the barbershop trial. I am a graduate of UNC School of Pharmacy, and we're happy to be here.

That's amazing. So I wanted to start off the episode, just talking about the study, and I think that

based on the title alone, it really captured a lot of people's attention of,

wait, what is this about? It's about barbershops and blood pressure reduction. Could we just

kind of briefly go through what the study was, why it was done, and what were some of the very

overarching themes in terms of the findings of the study? Sure. So the study was conducted because non-Hispanic black men have the

highest burden of hypertension-related death compared to other groups, which begs the need for

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