Essay On Chronic Hypertension

Hello Trisha, Thanks for sharing with us about your thoughts. Since we currently finished the pharmacology and medicinal chemistry part of hypertension medications and started pharmacotherapy part of it. From the hypertension guidelines, the first step when treating with hypertension patient is lifestyle interventions, including weight loss, diet control, smoking cessation and so on. I am really glad that you have the idea to combine what we learn during class and what we read from the book which was written by a physician. I agree with you that although we will be experts on medications, it is probably better for us to use motivational interviewing to help patients make some successful changes in their lifestyle before we try to put on medications

That day when I returned home from school, my mom’s boyfriend called me asking to speak to my grandmother. Typically, Gus would call my grandmother himself if he wanted to speak with her, which was rare. I found out about my mom going to the hospital from my grandmother after that phone call. The doctor told my family that a stroke afflicted her in the middle of the day. My mom confused the date with her birthday, had trouble getting words out and remembering our family member’s names. The nurse had to take her for walks periodically and exercise her legs and arms because they were weak. Seeing my mother in this condition made me appreciate my mother and everything she does for me tremendously. However, I was terrified for my mother’s health.

Mr. Dunn's blood pressure reading is 189/110. His LDL cholesterol reading is 200 mg/dl. He asks the student nurse if he should be concerned about his blood pressure.

I thought she would laugh, but she didn’t. We were eating dinner together. My sister and dad were out to a movie. It was quiet, peaceful inside the house. My mother said, “You could be good at that.” When I asked her why she felt that way, she smiled. She said, “I know you’re always telling stories in your head.” She surprised me. I asked her if she thought my sister could be a writer and she said, “Not in the same way.” I wanted her to talk more about who she thought I could be, but my dad and sister came home. My dad was mad that we hadn’t made enough dinner for him, that we hadn’t thought to turn on the porch light, that the pesto had been left on the counter, that he always had to clean up after us.

Hypertension is the medical term for high blood pressure. A normal blood pressure is 120/80. A blood pressure reading higher or equal to 140/90 is considered abnormally high. Elevated blood pressure means your heart is working harder than normal, putting both your heart and arteries under great strain. High blood pressure is serious business.

The heart pumps blood into the arteries and the force of the blood pushing against blood vessel walls is called blood pressure. Arteries carry the blood throughout the body. High blood pressure is also know as hypertension and is very dangerous in many different ways. One way is that it makes the heart have to work harder in order to pump the blood to the body. Secondly it contributes to hardening of the arteries and lastly, it also contributes to heart failure. A healthy heart is essential to life and having high blood pressure it not healthy for the heart. It has been proven that there are many different causes that have been linked to high blood pressure.

Abstract: Hypertension is one of the leading causes of Ischemic Heart disease. The study aims to find out the risk of getting Ischemic heart disease due to stage 2 hypertension. Other factors which contribute to the risk of Ischemic Heart disease are high cholesterol levels, age of the person, smoking status of the person, tumor of adrenal gland, sleep apnea, diabetes and high stress levels.For this study, the outcome variable is binary(Ischemic heart disease) and the variable of interest is hypertension. The variables which are controlled include cholesterol level of the person, smoking status, age and tumor of adrenal gland.The dataset which is from Evans County in Georgia is a 9 year follow-up study of 609 males at risk of getting a Ischemic Heart disease.71 males in the dataset had ischemic heart disease and 255 males had stage 2 hypertension. The race of the observations in the dataset was white and gender being male leaves the scope for further study to include different races and females which may lead to different outcomes and interpretations.

Data from World health organization (2002), estimated that high blood pressure was the cause of death for more than 7 million individuals every year, affecting 972 million of world population which accounts for 26.4% in total, 26.6% of those are men and 26.1% are women. In addition 333 million of those in developed countries and 639 million in developing countries and responsible for 11% of all diseases burden in industrial countries, it also estimated to be the case of death for more than 20% in men and almost 24% in women. (WHO, 2003), (Kearney et al, 2005)

A cohort study (article 1) and case study (article 2) that focused on the risk factors associated with hypertension were selected to be compared and contrasted. The cohort study was the first article I was able to read and looked at the relation of several sociodemographic, behavioral, and biochemical parameters on the number of hypertensions incidence among the group of subjects from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (Ford & Cooper, 1991). The subjects were separated into four main groups being that of black males (n=231), white males (n=2,370), black females (n=523) and white females (n=3,949) with a combined subject number of 14,407 (ages 25-74 years old) with an average follow up of 10 years (Ford & Cooper, 1991). By design various subgroups of the total number of subjects completed different study components and questionnaires, which meant that not all of the information was available for each respondent. An example of this was given by the study, which stated that dietary data available was only available for 11,348 subjects, serum potassium and sodium data for only 3,059 participants, whereas serum magnesium data were available for all participants (Ford & Cooper, 1991). The study also looked at independent variables, which included age, income, education, body mass index etc. along with dietary sub-analysis and continues variables all shown in table 1 (Ford & Cooper, 1991). This study found that the predictors (body mass index and education) were

The study in this article was trying to determine if a pharmaceutical care program improved medication adherence in hypertension patients. There was a total of 197 participants, 99 in the control group and 98 in the intervention group. Eligible patients had to be at least 18 years old, have a pre-established diagnosis of arterial hypertension, and have been on antihypertensive medication for at least 6 months. The intervention group received pharmaceutical care, which was defined as a baseline visit and quarterly follow up visits. In each of these visits, the pharmacist conducted a thorough interview of each patient, identified problems that lead to poor blood pressure (BP) control, provided education and counseling to each patient, BP

The patient that stimulated the interest in this subject was a 57-year-old male admitted with an acute exacerbation of COPD. The patient also had a history of hypertension, pulmonary embolism, and deep vein thrombosis. The patient is a smoker as well as his family. He has had many problems with trying smoking cessation for years. The patient also has a history of depression and anxiety. The patient has been on many medications to control his hypertension, but it is still out of the normal range. This man was in great need of nonpharmacological intervention and education.

Hello sir, the doctor wanted me to come in and talk to you for a minute. I understand that u have just been diagnosed with hypertension. I want to make sure you understand what that is and what goes along with it. Hypertension is just our fancy word for high blood pressure. Blood pressure is the amount of pressure that your blood is putting on the walls of your arteries. Now most people don’t even realize they have high blood pressure because more often than not, there are no signs or symptoms going along with it. Now, when checking your blood pressure we put on the blood pressure cuff and then we listen for your heart beat. There are two stages we get, one

A father is often a child’s first ideal. Since my childhood, I saw my father serving the ailing humanity with utmost dedication. He was a doctor at one of the biggest hospitals of South Asia and would regularly volunteer to assist patients in the low-income areas of Pakistan. I often used to visit his wards where I witnessed some of the most heart-wrenching incidents over the course of time. I realized that the importance of a doctor for the distraught families of seriously ill patients was no less than a messiah. This gradually inculcated in me a fervor to pursue the same profession as my father.

GABA plays a major role in the regulation of blood pressure. Various studies have described that GABA can reduce high blood pressure in animals and humans. Table 2.2 depicts some of the examples that have revealed the hypotensive role of GABA. The blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive humans and in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) decreases due to intake of GABA-rich food, as reported by Hayakawa et al., (2004) and Kajimoto et al., (2004), respectively. Direct injection of GABA (50–200 μg) reduced arterial pressure and heart rate in Wistar rats (Sasaki et al., 1996). Systolic blood pressure (SBP) in SHR was effectively reduced after 8 weeks of oral administration of GABA and peptide-enriched

Some drawback of this study are that all participants were males, and that they were not able to determine whether changes in OxLDL, ICAM-1, and VCAM-1 were a result of increasing doses of CJC or the duration of the study. Furthermore, a placebo group was not used. Although, only men were tested and a placebo group was absent, other studies show similar results. Another study, looking only at women, found that cranberry juice significantly increases plasma antioxidant capacity and decreases oxidized low- density lipoprotein. However, this study did not find that there were any significant improvements in blood pressure (Basu, Betts, Ortiz, Simmons, Wu, & Lyons, 2011). Further research should be conducted to further evaluate the