Cristina Sarmiento Aug. 30, 2017 Story #1 GAINESVILLE—The Mobile Outreach Clinic nonprofit organization will be releasing a hypertension survey to monitor patients that could be at risk. High blood pressure (HBP) is amongst one of the most prevalent chronic illnesses in the United States today. The MOC has created the survey to monitor the growing number of patients that can and are facing this issue in the community of Gainesville, as it can lead to other cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks, heart failure and strokes. UF nursing student Nikosazana Greene-Alaezi believes preemptive solutions should be tested prior to prescribing medications like Lisinopril. “You don’t want to put someone on medication unless you have to,” Alaezi said. “If they can reduce whatever bad things they’re putting into they’re body or excise more and reduce stress, that’s going to be the way.” MOC volunteer Alexandra Hernandez has noticed patients with HBP coming from clinics or hospitals elsewhere have already been prescribed medications. “Some physicians may not emphasize diet as much, maybe they’ll mention it once,” Hernandez said. “Instead of trying to change lifestyle as a whole they won’t stay on top of them, harping on it.” She believes American culture is the biggest culprit to HBP because those that do have the illness usually have diabetes as well. “We eat huge plates of pancakes and things like that,” Hernandez said. “I feel like it’s part of our culture to always finish our
The concern on whether anti-hypertensive’s should be withheld in patients who are hypertensive has been debatable in the recent past. Generally, the treatment of hypertension among hospitalized patients is basically an opportunity to enhance the recognition and treatment of blood pressure (Axon, Nietert & Egan, 2011, p.246). This is mainly because hypertension is a basic risk factor for heart diseases, stroke, and death whose impact is widespread to nearly 70 million adults in America. There have been numerous educational initiatives and publication of treatment processes to address this condition in the past few decades. Despite these measures, nearly 39 million Americans are at risk of hypertension because they have not reached their desired or optimal blood pressure.
Hypertension is sometimes referred to as the silent killer (Aycock, Kirkendoll, & Gordon, 2013). Today it is a public health problem. According to the American Heart Association 2013 Statistical Fact Sheet (2013), one out of every three adults has high blood pressure, which is estimated at 77.9 million people (AHA, 2013). High blood pressure is also referred to as hypertension. Hypertension is a prevalent medical condition that carries with it the risk factor for increased chances of heart disease and stroke (Gillespie & Hurvitz, 2013). Hypertension remains one of the top 10 causes of worldwide disability-adjusted life years (as cited in Drenjančević-Perić et al., 2011). For the estimated 348, 102 deaths in 2009, high blood pressure was listed as the primary or contributing cause of death (AHA, 2013). Despite the health risk associated with hypertension, the diagnoses of high blood pressure continue to rise. By 2030, hypertension is expected to increase by 7.2% from 2013 estimates (AHA, 2013).
Hypertension is predominantly a major problem for African Americans whose occurrence percentages are amongst the highest in the world (Heckler, Lambert, Leventhal, Leventhal, Jahn, & Contrada, 2008). Even though there have been meaningful progress in treatment of hypertension, the number of patients with well managed high blood pressure condition remain worryingly low, with the latest trends suggesting a high rise in the number of uncontrolled high blood pressure cases. This is
The program trains and supports barbers about hypertension. The trained barbers then play the roles of recording customers blood pressure readings, promoting awareness concerning hypertension, and making referrals to health care practitioners. The evaluation of this program has been done using two non-randomized research studies. Some of the key characteristics associated with this program include increased knowledge and awareness concerning hypertension screening, increased follow-up with physicians, a nontraditional population committed toward increased community awareness and incentive structure aimed at encouraging barbers to take part in the program (CDC,
I will present facts and statistics about hypertension from the Monmouth county’s community health assessment conducted by the Health Improvement Coalition of Monmouth County in 2017, as discussed earlier (“2016 Community Health Assessment,” 2017). After learning about the manifestation of hypertension within the area, I hope to have changed their outlook and incite positive lifestyle changes for prevention and early detection of
High blood pressure (hypertension ) is defined as high pressure (tension ) in the arteries , which are the vessels that carry blood from the heart to the rest of the body . High blood pressure is considered one of the highest causes of morbidity , one of the main leading causes of cardiovascular disease , and social global burden health risk factor . In addition to the high-cost burden to the global health service providers . About 70 million American adults have high blood pressure . Only about half of people with high blood pressure have their condition under control . Nearly 1 of 3 American adults has prehypertension , blood pressure numbers that are higher than normal , but not yet in the high blood pressure range . High blood pressure
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Hypertension is a very common problem, affecting 1 billion people worldwide, with 50 million cases in the United States, and one third of cases going undiagnosed. 1% of the cases will experience a hypertensive emergency in their life. (1,2)
During our interview G.F. stated that his blood pressure was “170/40”. I feel that it is important for G.F. to become more educated on blood pressure screenings due to his lack of knowledge on his baseline BP and his family history of cardiovascular disease. “Among patients with HTN, having an elevated SBP carries the highest risk for cardiovascular events” (Rodriguez, Swett, Agarwal, 2014, 1252-61).
American Heart Association quotes that Hypertension is an important public-health challenge worldwide. Importance should be focused on its detection, treatment control and prevention. The infectious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis which once were the reasons for leading the causes of deaths have been replaced by non –infectious diseases which are mostly the NCD’s such as diabetes, heart diseases, and other vascular conditions. Hypertension is an important worldwide public-health challenge because of its high frequency and concomitant risks of cardiovascular and kidney disease [78][79]. Heart attacks and strokes are major–but preventable–killers worldwide. More than 80% of cardiovascular disease related deaths take place in low-and
Our group has chosen Columbus Mississippi area for this group project. As the rate of hypertension
Pharmacist also looked at the current medication regimen and assess the appropriateness of such regimen and ask question such as, are her medical conditions optimally manage by pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapy. In light of her current condition, does the medication regimen need to be modify? Have the patient been concordance with the medication?
The high blood pressure is one of the genuinely dangerous cardiovascular diseases. That group is the most significant threat to the human health and the reason for numerous deaths all over the world. In facsimile, cardiovascular diseases actually are the most lethal of all diseases counting the number of deaths (Mendis, Puska, and Norrving, VI). Terribly, but according to an extracted statistical data, in 2011, more than thirty percents of adult
Hence, the reason why I will be launching a campaign to increase awareness of the incapacitating, possibly deadly consequences of living with uncontrolled high blood pressure. Most importantly, I aspire for this campaign will begin the knowledge in the low-income neighborhood where this intervention is needed. The plan is an after-church program because the race mostly affected by high blood pressure are African Americans. Because this affects an entire race of people, I plan on making this mandatory.
Approximately one in every three adult’s ages 20 years old and older are diagnosed with high blood pressure or hypertension. Hypertension affects 78 million people in the United States and is equally prevalent in both men and woman (Crabtree et al., 2013). Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (Hajjar & Kotchen, 2003). It can lead to stroke, myocardial infarction, renal failure, heart failure, neurological issues, and death if not detected early and not treated properly (James, Oparil, Carter, & et al., 2014). Approximately 9.4 million deaths in 2010 were attributed to high blood pressure (Angell, De Cock, & Frieden, 2015). About 54% of strokes, 47% of coronary heart disease, and 25 % of other cardiovascular diseases are attributed to high blood pressure (Arima, Barzi, & Chalmers, 2011).